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March 1990 $3.95

The Macintosh Magazine

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If you’re currently using carpet. And, perhaps more importantly, allow you to
Microsoft' Excel orWord, its now accomplish tasks that were previously impossible
possible for the people in your with any E-mail system,
department to work together Suppose, for instance, that youre preparing a

without having a get-together, report in Word. Because it features built-in Mail sup-
just add Microsoft Mail port, you can zap the report throughout your entire
Doing so will add years workgroup via Mail,
the life of your company’s Without ever having to leave your program.

nees an end to the
mon business trip.

And without losing formatting.

Then, if those receiving your report are in
Word, they can access your document with one key¬
stroke, digest it, add pertinent info, even attach
suggested changes. And spit it right back to you
without leaving their program.

Now if you think that’s whiz-bang, consider
this: When you combine Microsoft Excel with Mail,

you can do infinitely more than share spreadsheets.

Thanks to Microsoft Excels built-in macro
language,you can do stuff like write your own macro
to receive, process, and fulfill orders.

All without utilizing an iota of manpower.

And that’s just one example of how Microsoft
Excel and Mail allow
you to consolidate and
distribute data across
a network automat¬
ically Even if you have
both Macintoshes®
and PCs.

Now that we’ve
covered some of the
unique ways that
Microsoft Excel,

Word and Mail work
together, we’d like to
add one more signifi¬
cant point

We design ev¬
ery Microsoft appli¬
cation with a single
goal in mind: To con¬
tinually exploit the
Macintosh’s capabilities in ways that profoundly
promote productivity. And, of course, keep users
attached to their chairs.

Eor more information on how to avoid unneces¬
sary business trips, call (800) 541-1261, Department K67.

While you’re at it, ask about The Microsoft
Office— four of our best-selling business applications
bundled into one affordable package.

With our help, you’ll have no trouble keeping
your hallways clear.

Microsoft

Making it all make sense'

resen'ed. Microsoft and the Microsoft logo are registered trademarks and Making it all make sense is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Maantosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer. In

Microsoft Excel and Word now have built-in Mail
support. So you can send documents without ever leaving
your program. Or entering the hallway.

CONTENTS

Should you buy a
board or a SCSI box
to connect your Mac
to Ethernet? Find out
which Ethernet inter¬
faces provide the best
performance, page
132. (Photograph by
Pierre-Yves Goavec.)

How to Contact Macworld . 12

MacBulletin . 17

Commentary/Jerry Borrell . 23

Letters . 35

Art Beat . 47

By Deborah Branscum

The Iconoclast . ...53

By Steven Levy

Conspicuous Consumer . 61

By Deborah Branscum

With TOPS's InBox
3- 0 and InBox Plus,
you can easily link up
with other E-mail
systems and services
( Macworld News,
page 119).

State of the Mac . 77

By Thom Hogan

Verbatim . 87

C E Software’s Richard Ske i e

News . 105

By D an Li 1 1 m a n and Tom Moran

New Products . 223

How To/Quick Tips . 241

By Lon Poole

How To/Getting Started with Disk Maintenance . 247

B y J i m H e i d

How To/Insights on Wingz 1.1 . 253

By Charles S e it e r

Updates . 257

Where to Buy . 263

Best-Sellers . 300

F E A T U R E S

R E V I E W S

On the Ethernet Highway . 132

By Dave Kos i u r Macworld bibs tests Ethernet interfaces — add-in boards and SCSI
devices that connect your Mac to Ethernet networks.

The Medical Desktop . 138

By Franklin N. Te ssler, M. D., C. M. More and more physicians and research¬
ers are turning to the Macintosh for their imaging needs.

Color Paint Revisited . 144

By Bert M o n r o y Whether you’re an amateur or a graphics professional, the en¬
hancements in the current batch of color paint programs are sure to please you.

Erasable Opticals: New Light on Data . 152

By Charles S e i t e r Do erasable optical drives provide the ultimate solution to
your data storage dilemma?

Beneath the Surface: The World of Solid Modeling . 160

By S a s s a n Khoubyari Until now, Mac 3-D modelers were either wire-frame or
surface modelers. Now solid-modeling CAD programs for the Mac help engineers and
designers solve real-world problems.

Here's the Pitch . 166

By David Pogue Want to make a good impression? We evaluate the presenta¬
tion software programs that help you make the most impact.

Running out of
storage space ? Check
our evaluations of 15
erasable optical
drives (page 152).

ColorSpace Hi 3.0 and
ColorSpace FX 3.0 . 176

Video production boards for the
Mac It.

4th Dimension 2.0.6 . 177

Relational database manager

and application generator.

Toshiba P321SLC . 180

24-pin printer and Mac interface.

Life & Death 1.01 . 182

Surgical simulation game.

HyperHit 2.2 . 184

Indexed database toolbox for
HyperCard.

Top Honors 1.02 . 189

Certificate-making software.

Neotech Image Grabber 1.8 191

Video frame-grabber.

Deluxe Recorder 1.0 . 191

MIDI sequencer software.

Timbuktu/Remote 1.0.1 . 195

Remote access to a Macintosh.

Compilelt 1.2, Dialoger 1 .0,

ScriptEdit 1.1,

Wild Things 1.0 . 196

HyperTalk utilities.

The Puzzle Gallery: At the
Carnival 1.0 . 200

Puzzle collection.

Double Helix 3.0 . 200

Relational database.

Direct Mail 1 .0 and MyMailList
1.1.2 . 205

Mailing list organizers.

Preditor 1.0 . 207

Programmer's text -edit or.

Visual Business No. 5 1.02.. 209

3-D graphing and presentation

program.

Findswell 2.01 and
Shortcut 1.0 . 211

Pile-searcbing utilities.

Window Shopping . 215

The Electronic English Harulbot>k
1.02, King Erog, Collaborative
Writer 10, and State-Smart Hy¬
perCard Stack 2.0

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

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EDITORIAL

Executive Editor David Ushijima
Managing Editor Charles Barrett
Senior Editor/Featurcs Adrian Mello
Editorial Manager Jane Lagas
Senior Associate Editor/Depts Deborah Branscum
Senior Associate Editor/Lab Manager Chip Carman
Senior Associate Editor/Features Joe Matazzoni
Senior Associate Editor/East Coast Brita Meng
Senior Associate Editor/Reviews Carol Person
Senior Associate Editor/Features Cheryl E. Spencer
Associate Editor/News Dan Littman
Associate Editor/News Tom Moran
Associate Editor/Features Suzanne Stefanac
Associate Editor/Reviews Uza Weiman
Senior Production Editor Luis A. Camus
Senior Copy Editor Ruth Henrich
Assistant Editors Cathy E. Abes,

Mark Hurlow, Mary Margaret Lewis
Production Editor Annie Jenkel
Copy Editors Marjorie Baer, Emily Bower.
Felicity O'Meara, Katherine L. Ulrich
Assistant Production Editor Barbara Tannenbaum
Editorial Assistant Julian C. R. Okwu
Editorial Administrative Assistant Lyn Taylor
Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Sandy Butler
Contributing Editors Nancy E. Dunn, Robert C.
Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, Rob Hahn, Jim Heid, Dave Kosiur,
Steven Levy. David Pogue, Lon Poole, Steve Roth,
Charles Seiter, Franklin N. Tessler, Bruce F. Webster
Overseas Editors Osmund Lind Iversen, Editor,
Australian Macworld, tel. 02-439-5133; Peter Worlock.
Editor, Macworld (U.K. edition), tel. 01-831-9252

ARTandDESIGN

Design Director Dennis McLeod
Art Director Joanne Hoffman
Assistant Art Director Nancy Paynter
Designer Leslie Barton

Designer/Informational Graphics Arne Hurty
Associate Designers Andrew Faulkner. Hae Yuon Kim

Senior Design Associate Tim Johnson
Design Associate Martha Katt

PRODUCTION

Director of Manufacturing Anne Foley
Production Manager Claudia Dawn Smukler
Advertising Billing Coordinator So Fong Yip
Advertising Traffic Coordinator Annette Garcia

President and Publisher
Macworld Communications James E. Martin
Assistant to the President Susan Miller

March 1990, Volume 7, Number 3

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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

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about just one really important reason: When you ask industry critics
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WriteNow. Still the word processor of choice in the Macintosh world.

Reviews

£ £ WriteNow is the definitive Macintosh word
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— -John Dvorak, Industry Columnist

[WriteNow] might he The Best Program I'd
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Even if WriteNow is your first Mac application,
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We rate ease of learning excellent * *
— InfoWorld Magazine

Awards

1989 Editors' Choice Award ,

‘Best New Word Processor’ — MacUser

1989 Readers ' Choice Award,

‘Best Word Processor’ — MACazine

#/ Rated Word Processor in Macintosh
PC Week Poll of Corporate Satisfaction. ’

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And we accelerated QuickDraw on every Series III 24-bit
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And when it comes to looks, there’s nothing more impressive
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All in all, it’s just the kind of innovation you’d
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So mosey on in to your local dealer and try your hand
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And for those of you who don’t need 16.7 million colors at
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Call us at 1-408-773-4498 ext. 300 for more information
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SUPERMAC

TECHNOLOGY

1989 SuperMac Technology. Spectrum/24 Series III. PixelPaint Professional, and SuperMac are registered trademarks
of SuperMac Technology. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks

of their respective manufacturers.

Images shown are actual screen-images photographed directly from a SuperMac 19" display. Original photography was scanned with
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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

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It’s Going Where No High-Speed
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There’s nothing more advanced for Macin¬
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connected Mac can communicate at any
speed up to a sizzling 9,600 bps with full V.32 compatibil¬
ity. The NetModem V.32 is easy to use, even if you’ve
never seen a modem before, with menubar ‘LEDs’ and
familiar modem sounds fed back to your Mac as your call
progresses. It’s also economical, saving the expense of a
dedicated Mac, multiple modems and extra phone lines -
not to mention excessive telephone and online charges.

It even lets you dial in to your network
from a remote site to access files, use TOPS,®
AppleShare,® E-mail,® printers or any other
network resource. And it lets any Mac on
your network access a remote network
thousands of miles away, creating a pow¬
erful, high-speed wide-area internetwork. The Hayes-com¬
patible NetModem V.32 comes with Internet Manager soft¬
ware that lets you create network zones, control traffic,
restrict access between zones - even check the location
and status of every device in the system. The NetModem
V.32 is setting a whole new standard. For more informa¬
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Not an illusion! Now the PhoneNET
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Your desktop publishing department is
growing. So is your AppleTalk network. Only

now you’re about to
produce the com¬
pany's biggest ever
annual report. You’re
right on schedule when suddenly it feels like
someone poured molasses in the network.

You’ve got a LocalTalk logjam. Sound
familiar?

You call Harrington, your network whiz.

On his Macintosh, Harrington brings up
Farallon’sTrafficWatch software. Using Traffic-
Watch, he can analyze traffic patterns and
check the placement of servers and routers.
Everything looks fine. LocalTalk just can’t
handle the traffic.

Ethernet is the answer. But does
everyone have to have it? And can you run
Ethernet and LocalTalk together? Harrington is a
smart guy. He draws a simple picture on the chalk¬
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How do you do it?

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on one network.

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What’s even better, you can combine our
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StarControllers and StarConnectors to create
hybrid networks that are reliable, cost-effective
and easy-to-manage.

Imagine, now you can run high-performance
Ethernet for people who frequently access a central
database, transfer large graphics files or operate
network-intensive applications, such as CAD or
desktop publishing. And run low-cost LocalTalk for
everyone else. All on the same wiring system.

Running two well-defined standards like

Ethernet and LocalTalk
also means your net¬
work is compatible with
Macintoshes and IBM
personal computers,
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stations, laser printers and DEC VAXes. And every¬
thing will communicate using popular network
software, such as AppleShare, 3Com 3+, TOPS
and Novell Netware.

Your future is in the stars.

If you think hybrid networks make sense,
here’s an even more sensible idea: active star net¬
works over twisted-pair telephone wire.

Stars are the standard for telephone networks,
with cables running from the phone closet out to
each desk. The PhoneNET System uses this same
cabling for your computer network.

Which means if you already have a LocalTalk
network using the PhoneNET System, then creating
a hybrid LocalTalk/Ethernet network should be easy.

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Of course, a larger, faster network requires
more management power. Our StarControllers have
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and fix problems without disrupting the network.

For example, our StarControllers automat¬
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Ethernet, thus protecting the rest of the network,
and turn them back on when the jam clears.

Plus, each StarController comes with Star-
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monitors the network and alerts the network man¬
ager to any problems. Running under MultiFinder
and password-protected, StarCommand will isolate
and diagnose problems without interfering with
the rest of the network. And since it works over a
dedicated management bus, you can troubleshoot
even if the network is down.

only some of your people are facing critical
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and productive. So rather than installing
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issue, clunky mouse.

Finally, here’s a solution
that’ll help you create, not
hinder you.

It’s WIZ™ by CalComp.

A new mouse that’s so differ¬
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one. Because it combines all
the easy-to-use features of a
mouse and stylus with the

power ol an “intelligent”

graphics pad to enhance every

pointing, tracing and drawing

function you do.

When you draw with the
WIZ mouse and optional
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with a marker. In fact, you’ll
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and creative.

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The World on a Data String

A World Factbook CD ROM containing maps of the
world, lists of international organizations, and 256 pro¬
files of different geographic regions is now available
from Wayzata Technology. The profiles include socio¬
economic, geopolitical, and demographic information
on specific countries. The CD ROM lists for $99, with
discounts for schools, libraries, and dealers. For more
information, call Wayzata Technology at 612/460-8438,
or 800/735-7321.

Thunderware's Aid to Scanning

Thunderware says it has begun shipping a plastic guide
to help hand-held scanners scan in astraight line. Called
SnapGuide, the device fits Thunderware’s Lightning-
Scan and Logitech’s ScanMan and makes it easier to ac¬
curately scan objects that require two passes. SnapG uide
is available for $14.95 but is being sent free to all regis¬
tered owners of LightningScan. For more information,
call Thunderware at 415/254-6581.

New Virus Crashes onto the Scene

The new WDEF virus differs from other viruses by riding
in the Desktop file instead of in applications or System
files, so that it may spread immediately when an in¬
fected disk is inserted. Symantec Anti-Virus Utilities
programmer Paul Cozza and a spokesperson for HJC,
which publishes Virex, said WDEF was intended to be
harmless, but is incompetently programmed and can
cause crashes, especially on the Mac Ilci. SAM 1.3 and
Virex 2.3, both updated to protect the Mac’s Desk¬
top file, should be available now. The freeware Dis¬
infectant 1.5 is also effective against WDEF.

OmniPage Add-ons Provide New Capabilities

Four new products from Caere extend optical character
recognition. OmniProof compares word processing
documents, searching for changes between versions;
OmniSpell is designed to catch errors common to OCR;
OmniTrace converts bitmapped images to Encapsu¬
lated PostScript format and provides some editing
tools, OmniDraft performs OCR on draft-mode dot ma¬
trix printer output. OmniTrace and OmniDraft list for
$ 1 00 each and require OmniPage. OmniProof and Omni-
Spell list for $150 each and work without OmniPage.
For more information, contact Caere at 408/395-7000.

Reference Readies Grammatik Mac

Reference software claims its new Grammatik Mac
looks for 10,000 kinds of writing problems, ranging

from two commas in a row to redundancy and word¬
iness. You can turn editing rules on or off, proofread
files against several styles, and chart the program's
analysis of your sentences. Grammatik Mac reads
Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, MacWrite, and Write-
Now. It will list for $99. For more information, contact
Reference Software at 415/541-0222.

Network Courier for Mac

Consumer Software is entering the Mac market with an
interface to its DOS-based E-mail package. Network
Courier for the Mac will run on LocalTalk networks
connected to Novell, Banyan, 3Com, and other IBM
PC servers. Network Courier supports many different
protocols, including MCI Mail, X.400, SNADS D1SOSS,
PROFS, and SMPT, and can create simple aliases for long
lists of complex addresses. The Mac product will be an
application, not a desk accessory. Pricing had not been
decided at press time. For more information, contact
Consumer Software at 604/688-4548.

Niles to Abstract Mac Magazines

The people who publish the bibliography package
EndNote are using their information-management
product to publish Mac-related information. The first
edition of Maclnfo will include an EndNote database
with abstracts of 2800 articles from Macworld , Mac-
User, and MacWeek, and the database will be updated
monthly by subscription/ Users can browse Maclnfo, but
to make changes will require a full working version of
EndNote. Maclnfo will list for $99 a year. For infor¬
mation, contact Niles & Associates at 415/655-6666.

Mac-DOS Syzygy Approaches

Information Research is developing a version of Syzygy
that will allow Macs and DOS machines to work to¬
gether. Syzygy, wrhich currently runs only under DOS,
enables networked users to manage and coordinate
group tasks by integrating data from project managers,
spreadsheets, and word processors in a shared rela¬
tional database. The Mac-DOS version of Syzygy is
scheduled to ship in the fall of 1990. For more informa¬
tion, contact Information Research at 804/979-8191.

Apple Ships CL/1 Server

After a long delay, in December Apple 1/egan shipping
the CL/1 Developer’s Toolkit for Macintosh and the
CL/1 Server for VAX/VMS, the first two components of
CL /I . Apple also announced CI71 Servers for IBM's
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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

MAC BULLETIN

Database 2 (DB2) and SQLDS database-management
systems would be available in the first quarter of 1990.
Developed by Network Innovations (acquired by Apple
in March 1988), CL/1 is an extension of Structured Query
Language (SQL) that allows client Mac applications to
access data on host-based servers. The CL/1 Server for
VAX/VMS systems is priced at $5000 per CPU or cluster;
iheCI/1 Developer’s Toolkit, which helps programmers
build CL/1 support into applications, costs $695 per
single-user license. Both are available from the Apple
Programmers and Developers Association.

Apple Offers Phase 2 Support for AppleTalk for VMS

Apple announced that in the first quarter of 1990, it will
provide AppleTalk Phase 2 support for VMS via Apple-
Talk for VMS version 2. 1 . Phase 2 increases the number
of possible nodes on a single AppleTalk network from
25 a to over 16 million. Codeveloped by Apple and Pacer
Software, AppleTalk for VMS provides AppleTalk net¬
work protocols to Digital Equipment Corporation VAX
computers running the VMS operating system.

Xerox Sues Apple for $150 Million

After years of silence, Xerox Corporation has sued
Apple for $150 million for allegedly misappropriating
interface technology developed in the late 1970s at Xe¬
rox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Xerox is widely
acknowledged by Apple and the industry' as the origi¬
nator of such interface standards as icons, pull-down
menus, scroll bars, and the mouse. Apple representa¬
tives describe the suit as being without merit. The rep¬
resentatives said that the Lisa and Macintosh interfaces
are in part expressions of ideas created at PARC, but
that ideas are not copyrightable. Expressions of ideas —
that is, the specific implementations — are copyright-
able, an Apple spokesperson says. Numerous observers
noted that the Xerox suit may add to Apple’s problems
with its suit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
Apple is suing those companies for infringing on
Apple's interface copyrights. The long delay between
the introduction of the Macintosh and the Xerox suit
will likely be to Apple's advantage, however, with some
observers linking the timing of the suit to the recent
appointment of former IBM executive William Lowe
as president of Xerox.

Apple Clarifies System 7.0 Features

As promised, in December Apple announced the fea¬
tures that will be included in the much-anticipated
System 7.0. Due out sometime in the summer of 1990,
System 7.0 will include a new Finder; Interapplication
Communications Architecture; and Outline Fonts, the
technology Apple intends as a substitute for PostScript.
The new Finder will add Macintosh FileShare, which
permits file sharing without a dedicated file server. The
new System will also incorporate the Database Access
Manager, Virtual Memory', and 32-bit Addressing. Virtual
memory is a disk-caching scheme that makes space on
a hard disk seem like central RAM. Virtual memory
requires a 68030-based Mac, or a Mac II with a PMMU

chip added. The 32-bit addressing will permit a theoreti¬
cal addressing limit of terabytes of memory (trillions of
bytes), instead of the current theoretical limit of 128MB.
Apple will also ship the Communications Toolbox, a
developer’s aid, with 7.0.

A DA with Style

Microlytics will publish a Mac version of Statnk and
White’s The Elements of Style. The desk accessory will
be a simple online reference work, but it will have hooks
to a grammar checker that Microlytics is developing, so
that you can immediately get appropriate informa¬
tion about style while using the grammar checker. The
as-yet-unnamed DA should be available second
quarter 1990. For more information, contact Micro¬
lytics at 716/248-9150.

Apple Increases Phone Support

Apple is implementing toll-free phone support for de¬
velopers, and considering offering phone support di¬
rectly to end users. Expanded phone support for devel¬
opers is scheduled for January. The service, called the
Apple Technical Answer Line, has two $ 1 175-per-vear
options, one for networking and communications, and
one for A/UX. Apple is also considering adding other
services, including one for noncommercial developers.

Voyager Moves into the Stars

Version 1.2 of Carina Software’s sky simulator, Voyager,
adds sortie new features for amateur and not-so-ama-
teur astronomers. You can now choose your location on
Earth by clicking on a globe or by selecting a city from a
scrolling list; change star magnitudes to make dimmer
stars visible; see a grayed-out image of stellar objects
below the horizon, and add objects, up to your Mac’s
memory limits. Carina is also working on a color, Mac
Il-only product to be called Voyager II, as well as a Mac-
driven telescope controller. For more information,
contact Carina Software at 415/352-7328.

ISDN Put tojhe Test

Northern Telecom is testing an Integrated Services Dig¬
ital Network (ISDN) link between its internal network
and public ISDN networks from IJ.S. Sprint and MCI.
ISDN provides much greater bandwidth than normal
telephc me tines and can transfer voice and digital data at
the same time, making it useful for multimedia applica¬
tions. Northern Telecom plans to use ISDN’s videocon¬
ferencing, electronic data interchange (EDI), Group 4
fax capabilities, and other services.

North Edge News

North Edge Software is changing its name to match its
principal product, Timeslips. The renamed Timeslips
Software is preparing a version 2.0 upgrade of its Time-
slips III time-billing product that will provide a draw¬
ing environment for designing forms, handle recur¬
ring charges, and provide much more flexible reports.
A five-user package will list for $699. For more infor¬
mation, contact Timeslips Software at 508/768-6100. □

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

Second Annual

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Macintosh computer and new Kodak Diconix printer

Introducing the Kodak Diconix Ml 50 plus printer. Don't take
a Mac anywhere without one. Now you can print out a sudden
revision, a quick letter, an instant overhead anywhere!

just think of all the things you can do if you have a printer with your
Macintosh computer. Those last-minute improvements on the
presentation. And the letters and reports that could be on their way
right now. Then there's the sheer convenience of being able to
read what you write before you get back to the office.

It's all easy if you have the new Kodak Diconix Ml 50 plus printer.

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“SuperPaint remains the best black and white
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Claris Revisited

Whatever happened to the company people loved to hate?

BY JERRY BORRELL

.t first glance it looks like a high-tech shop¬
ping mall. A three-story-high atrium extends the city-block length of
the building. Thin steel girders supporting triangles of glass in the
style of I. M. Pei allow the bright Silicon Valley sunlight to flood

the entire space. A concrete obelisk,
actually a fountain, rises within the
atrium and spills water down its sides
with a quiet rush of sound. Bays of
offices open onto the central atrium.
People come and go singly or talking
animatedly in small groups, but there
is surprisingly little sound in the build¬
ing. It’s more like an academic think
tank than the Sunnyvale, California,
headquarters of the seventh-largest
personal computer software company
in the United States. (That’s an estimate —
as a pan of Apple Computer, Claris’s
earnings are not available to the public.)

Bill Campbell, the company presi¬
dent, is responsible for the future of the
380-odd people who this year produced
and sold over $65 million in Macintosh
software. It has been more than a year
since Campbell initiated his self-imposed
withdrawal from most public appear¬
ances. The cause was a raft of unfavor¬
able articles that appeared in magazines
such as Macworld and BusinessWeek.

During the early establishment of
Claris, Campbell had gone out of his way
to meet and talk with the press about
Claris and his visions for its bright fu¬
ture. For its pan, the press, most nota¬
bly BusinessWeek, went out of its way to
put the Apple spin-off in the worst pos¬
sible light. Campbell in particular seemed

Claris president Bill Campbell at company headquarters

to be singled out for harsh treatment.

Meanwhile, Campbell’s outspoken
call for Apple to produce a low-cost Mac
won him the enmity of more than a few
managers at Apple. It was an ill-kept
secret that by the beginning of 1989
relations between Apple and Claris had
turned sour on many fronts, with Claris
being denied access to new products
and software that many other software
developers had extensive access to.
There was a certain irony to the situ¬
ation that did not escape Claris execu¬
tives: many small developers were openly

displeased with the relationship and
special privileges they believed Apple
provided to Claris. Apple was going out
of its way to disprove the idea. Mean¬
while, during the preannouncement
period, Claris product developers were
forced to drive to Cupertino to use a
Mac Ilci for testing after
their one week of in-house
use had ended.

Understandably, the gre¬
garious, outspoken executive
became gun shy. But by last
December, when I met with
Campbell, the Apple rift ap¬
peared to have healed. Gone
were perorations about
Claris’s expensive investiga¬
tions into electronic-mail
products that were subse¬
quently abandoned after
Apple announcements of stra¬
tegic direction for Apple Mail.
Instead, Claris has developed
a reputation for being one of
Apple’s most capable devel¬
opers for the features that
system software 7.0 will provide. Jean-
Louis Gassee has taken to performing
demos with Claris products to show off
the interapplication features of Apple’s
next-generation system software.

Some Things Never Change

Bill is smiling as he comes to the lobby of
the building to greet me. After seven
years of working at or around Apple,
he’s still happy. Must be genetic. While
we walk to the cafeteria for lunch he
works the crowd in a way that would
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shame a Kennedy. As we move along
the third-floor balcony, he spies people
on other levels and shouts to them.
Smiling, alluding to events, projects,
or family members in ways that clear¬
ly show he communicates with em¬
ployees on a regular basis. This is no
egregious politicking, he takes pride
in knowing Claris staff on a first-
name basis.

The balustrades along the halls and
stairwells have Plexiglas panels installed
so that employees’ children, who often
visit, will not be able to crawl between
the bars. A yellow plastic duck floats in
the pool at the top of the fountain. The
cafeteria, once the exclusive executive
eatery of the former occupants of the
building, is another source of pride.
Campbell had the facility renovated
and opened to all Claris employees. He
exudes warmth and obviously enjoys
his contact with staff.

Is It Really That Good?

As we sit to eat, Campbell grimaces
when I tell him that I want to revisit
Claris in this column. Explaining that
he would prefer to B.S. about the in¬
dustry rather than behave properly for
an interview, he reminds me that he
avoids publicity since he has been a
target so often in the past.

I start by asking whatever hap¬
pened to Claris CAD, the company’s
reportedly costly entry into the CAD
market. Campbell responds that the
investment was good, that Claris has a
38 percent share of the Mac CAD mar¬
ket. But he admits the market is a
cupcake, not a pie — not the runaway
market that some had anticipated.

I own up to the fact that I still pre¬
fer to use MacWrite 5.0 rather than
MacWrite II. He notes that MacWrite II
has received many extremely positive
reviews, including those in Macworld.

I forget to ask, but think later of
the fact that Deneba’s Canvas is eating
market share like crazy in the draw
category — and at the expense of
MacDraw, which remains one of the
best-selling Mac programs all the same.
1 do remember to ask about MacPaint.
It’s clear that no one at Claris has much
heart to talk about MacPaint. Its sales
have dropped dramatically in the face
of competition from Silicon Beach’s
SuperPaint, and Claris has made no
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statement of intent to upgrade the
program. Instead, Claris employees
have made it clear that MacDraw will
continue to evolve and adopt features
of MacPaint.

I could have asked, but didn’t,
about the forms market and Smart-
Forms. It’s undeniably a good product,
with a major share of what’s turned
out to be another less-than-thriving
market, though Claris ballyhooed it as
the next wave in desktop publishing.

Can Claris Compete with Microsoft?

Above all else there is the question of
whether Claris can grow to compete
with Microsoft. MacProject and File¬
Maker are best-sellers (they sell around
2000 copies apiece per month) that,
together with MacWrite and MacDraw
(even better sellers), fill Claris’s coffers
and make the company a credible rival
to Microsoft in the Mac software mar¬
ket. Microsoft derives over $100 mil¬
lion per year from its Mac software. So
if you judge from this market alone,
Claris and Aldus (which pulls in about
$40 million in Mac sales) are Micro¬
soft’s only major competitors in the
Mac market.

A related question is whether Claris
will remain a Mac-only software com¬
pany or whether it will decide it needs
DOS- or Presentation Manager-based
software in order to compete at the
national level. One of Claris’s stated
goals at the time it was established was
that the company would create soft¬
ware that exemplified the best that
could be written for the Macintosh.

Actually, the company had a three-
part scheme: update its existing soft¬
ware, acquire new products, and de¬
velop original products. No question
about the updates — Claris has revised
all of the original products twice in one
year. Claris CAD, FileMaker, Smart-
Forms, and part of MacWrite II are
the acquisitions. The first two parts
are completed. We should see in¬
house-developed applications by
1990. Hints of the work under way
are available in the freeware program
Public Folder that was distributed
last October.

Public or Not?

One oft-asked question is when Claris
will become a public company. The
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answer will shape the two earlier ques¬
tions and no doubt figures frequently
in discussions at Apple. On this subject
Campbell says only that going public
is a decision that John Sculley and Al
Eisenstat will have to make. I don't
really expect we can imagine how
Claris will look in the future until it is
completely in control of its own des¬
tiny. And I don’t expect to see a defini¬
tive answer to the DOS/ Presentation
Manager development question until
then either. There is no obvious need
for Claris to go public or for Apple
to raise capital by organizing an IPO
(initial public offering). In fact, the
argument could be made that Claris
is a candidate for a leveraged buy¬
out by its employees and so would
remain private. At present Apple has
too much at stake to allow Claris that
kind of freedom.

The company’s unusually large
expenditures for research and devel¬
opment would be curtailed by such a
public offering. And since Claris is now
working furiously to take advantage of
7.0 features, it has little incentive to
subject itself to public scrutiny. Third
parties, on the other hand, would love
to see Claris subject to the vagaries of
the stock exchange.

One can argue that Claris is better
positioned than Microsoft or Aldus to
have a broad range of products based
on 7.0. In fact, one could say at this
juncture that Claris’s success with 7.0
will be the harbinger for the overall
success of Apple’s latest version of its
operating system.

Still Part of Apple?

Beyond questions of technology' and
business there is the issue of whether
Claris has the heart, the identity, to
become a company in its own right. Or
whether it will become mired in at¬
tempts to clone Apple’s mentality.

“The duck — so that’s where it’s
gone,” said a friend upon hearingabout
the artificial waterfowl floating three
stories high in its cement pond. And
slowly I recalled that the duck had
floated for some years in the blue-tiled
ponds of Apple’s former corporate
headquarters. That seemed a fitting
symbol of Claris. Part of Apple — per¬
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A forum for Macworld readers

The Warranty Shuffle

(bought a Mac IIx in Feb¬
ruary', and by the end of
July my hard disk icon
would not show up on the
desktop. Even though I
thought it would be a waste
of time, I decided to write to
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It Starts Making Sense

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The Pricey Portable

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The phone number for
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AppleLink.

The telephone number
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8808.

The phone number for
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800/336-3614.

Time fora New NuBus

When the Mac II was in¬
troduced, in came the
problem of the NuBus: that
NuBus cycles are more than
a tad slower than the 16-
MHz 68020 chip. This was
not truly apparent until the
faster 16MHz 68030 was
introduced with true 32-bit
addressing, about the time
that more NuBus boards
were being made available.
You can’t put any high¬
speed device or memory' in
the NuBus.

(continues)

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

LETTERS

We have a 25M Hz 68030
that still depends on that
aged NuBus. It’s like walk¬
ing with gum on your shoe.
What could be the reason
for this oversight? Cost? No.
Anyone willing to shell out
for 80-nanosecond chips
won't blink twice at spend¬
ing a few more dollars.
Michael F Sanders
.Address unknou m

ProDOS Read/Write

n page 217 of the Octo¬
ber issue, in New Prod¬
ucts, you mention again that
Apple’s new' FDHD floppy
drive [now called the Super-
Drive] can read, write, and
format 800K ProDOS disks.
It's important to remind
readers that of these three
ProDOS capabilities, only
the ability to format is new.
Regular 800K floppy drives
have always been able to
read and write files on pre¬

formatted ProDOS disks
using Apple File Exchange.
The fact that you and other
sources keep mentioning
the FDHD’s ProDOS read-
and-write capability makes
it seem like a new feature
for Mac floppy drives w hen
it’s not.

Martin B. Tittle
Ann Arbor, Michigan

A Printer's Life Cycle

found Jim Heid’s article
“Paging All Printers,” in
your October 1989 issue,
most informative, especially
since I am in the market for
a laser printer for home use.
How'ever, I think Heid over¬
looked one point in his
analysis: life-cycle costs.

I use the NEC LC890
Silentwriter with my Mac II
(on a five-Mac netw'ork) at
work. We chose the Silent-
writer because its engine’s
rated life was 600,000 pages.

Heid’s chart. “Printer Par¬
ticulars," shows that the
Silentwriter is the only
moderately priced printer
with a 600,000-page engine
life; the others in its price
range have ratings of either
180,000 or 300,000 pages.
The only other printers that
have a 600,000-page rating
are the Dataproducts LZR-
1260 ($7995) and the Agfa
Compugraphics P3400PS
($12,500).

Chris E. Hagherg
Vienna. Virginia

Engine life-cycle ratings are less
importantthan such engine speci¬
fications as paper capacity, pages
per minute, and cost of consum¬
able components such as toner.
If you print 1 00 pages every busi¬
ness day, even-a lowly 1 80,000-
page engine will run for seven
years before needing an over¬
haul. Chances are you'll be
ready to upgrade to a faster.

newer printer by then. — Ed.

Printer Problems

n your recent review of
laser printers (October
1989), you recommended
the GCC Personal Laser-
Printer, noting that it is
prone to only occasional in¬
compatibility problems. My
experiences with one of
these printers leads me to
believe otherwise.

First, I found that cer¬
tain lines in Word 4.0 (in¬
cluding fraction bars) print
as hairlines. This means I
can’t use Word 4.0 to pro¬
duce mathematical docu¬
ments. Second, when I used
the software upgrade I re¬
ceived from GCC, I discov¬
ered that printing from
Word 3 02 often resulted in
compressed blank charac¬
ters and extra space i nserted
between nonblank charac-
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ters. This is unacceptable for
any kind of printing. Finally,
almost everything I print
from Expressionist, a well-
known equation editor, looks
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Evidently, most manu¬
facturers test their software
on PostScript printers and
ignore the PLP (none of the
companies I contacted had
a PLP for testing purposes).
The fact that GCC would dis¬
tribute software for its own
printer that does not work
properly with a major appli¬
cation like Word 3. 02 says
something about the quality
of the product.

None of these problems
occur on Apple laser printers.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but
if I had it to do over again, I
would certainly spend the
ext ra money for an Apple laser
printer. I suggest you give a
stronger warning to poten¬
tial purchasers of non-Post¬

Script printers. The inability
to correctly print the docu¬
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rather worthless and all your
efforts creating these docu¬
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Michael R. Ziegler
Fox Point, Wisconsin

Your experiences prove that Quick¬
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Virus Prevention

e found Bruce Webster’s
comparison of antiviral
programs (Reviews, January
1990) extremely misleading.

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is his failure to distinguish be¬
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and Class II, Detection, cate¬
gories of antiviral products.

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Scores or nVir) he would have
found that Anti-Virus Kit de¬
tected the virus, blocked its
actions, and even allowed the
application to be used with¬
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ucts require upgrades to
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Anti-Virus Kit does not detect

specific viruses, upgrades are
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have appeared. In all cases
the original version blocks
their actions.

Susan Monjan
1 st Aid Software
Boston, Massachusetts

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both on the packaging ("a ... set of
utilities for detecting and prevent¬
ing viral infections") and on page
21 of the manual, which discusses
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LETTERS

score in detection (Class II) — both
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use a product that does not offer
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yet been executed. Consequently,
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The Upside of Finance

teven Levy is a funny and
talented fellow ( The
Iconoclast , January 1990). He
is to personal-finance soft¬
ware what Fran Lebowitz is
to exercise and fresh air (she
hates them). On my second
reading of his column about
Managing Your Money, I saw
there were actually quite a
few kudos, plus a clear state¬
ment that “my personal re¬
jection of [Managing Your
Money] does not imply that
others should reject it.” Still,
on first reading, the column

is devastating.

He says “it didn't take
long to realize that whatever
bias [Tobias] had against the
Macintosh is subtly reflected
[in MYM].” Sounds sinister,
no? Actually, Mac-MYM was
designed and programmed
by a team of Mac true-believ-
ers, not me.

He talks of a “quasi-tyr¬
anny” that underlies the pro¬
gram. You “must go through
your house room by room,
gauging what all your furni¬
ture is worth.” Nonsense.
You can do that or not, as
you please — MYM offers tre¬
mendous flexibility in how
you organize your finances
and then lets you click and
drag to rearrange your group¬
ings and subgroupings and
watch all the subtotals and
pie charts change.

“You don’t simply open
a file called New when you
want to start over; a compli¬

cated rigmarole is invoked."
To make a new data file,
just select New from the File
menu — as with any other
Mac program. I guess the
“complicated rigmarole" is
the dialog box we then throw
up on the screen suggesting
you not use a totally blank
new file, but rather choose
one of the empty but pre¬
structured files we supply
(one business, one person¬
al) to save you a lot of
grunt work. Why is that
complicated?

“Other features are down¬
right depressing.” OK, his
tongue is in his cheek — but
it’s not the most upbeat way
to describe features none of
the competition has in any¬
where near MYM’s depth, if
at all: insurance planning, re¬
tirement planning, college-
tuition planning, and port¬
folio analysis (among others).

Why would someone go

to the trouble of entering his
or her financial transactions
into the Macintosh (it’s really
less trouble than manual bill¬
paying and tax-record organ¬
izing, once you get the hang
of it) and then not take a little
extra time to get a lot more
out of it?

I hope Steven Levy’s col¬
umn — amusing though it
was — won't be Macworld ’s
last word on the subject.
Andrew Tobias
via CompuServe

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by Deborah Branscum

This column examines the tools
and the talent behind Macworld's
graphics and discusses the tech¬
niques that make them possible.

Artist: Veteran Macworld
illustrator Mick Wiggins
finds his work in demand at
several national publica¬
tions. Two years ago the
Berkeley, California-based
artist switched toexclusively
using the Mac for his com¬
mercial work.

Tools: Mac II, external 30MB
DataFrame hard disk from
SuperMac, BarneyScan scan¬
ner, Adobe PhotoShop,
Pixel Pain t Prc Sessional .

How It Was Done: Wiggins was
asked to create an illustra¬
tion for “Color Paint Revis¬
ited" on page 144. As the ar¬
ticle points out, the advent
of 32-bit QuickDraw and
24-bit color boards make
the Mac a truly professional
color tool. To highlight that
concept, Wiggins’s illustra¬
tion couples computer
references (an outline of a
Mac, a mouse) with allu¬
sions to old masterpieces
and contemporary art.

After sketching a rough
of the illustration, Wiggins
tracked down images to use
as “scrap" for his creation.
The artist used a service
bureau's BarneyScan to scan
in several transparencies for
his exercise in computer
collage. Once he had stored
the images on the external
hard disk, he headed home
for a session with Photo-
Shop to clean them up.

Wiggins spent some three
hours sharpening colors,
tilting images, and working
other voodoo to create the
best images.

“I’m real impressed with
PhotoShop,” says Wiggins.
The picture frame appeared
brown and murky after ]3e-
ing photographed from a
magazine and scanned. The
artist experimented with
frame sizes and fine-tuned
the final choice in Photo¬
shop fora brighter gold.

Once he was satisfied
with the scanned images,
Wiggins moved to PixelPaint
Pro. The ratio of photos to
drawings was important to
Wiggins, who used Pixel-
Paint Pro for the individual¬
ly drawn elements and over¬
all illustration, which was
1.3MB when completed.

“It’s new for me to have
four-color photographs in
an illustration and to work
out linear elements and il¬
lustrations so they balance,”
says Wiggins. “It took me a
day to get used to working
with photo images,” but
the overall illustration was
no more time-consuming
than usual. □

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The Not-So-Great Compromise

The Macintosh Portable is not the best, just the most bearable

BY STEVEN LEVY

.he Macintosh Portable is, in my opinion, the
least successful computer that Apple has shipped since pre-
Mac days. For all the baloney we’ve been fed about its being a
no-compromise machine, it is full of compromises: its size is a

compromise, its weight is a compro¬
mise, its processing chip is a compro¬
mise, its scheme for memory additions
is a compromise, and its lack of a back¬
lit screen is a compromise. The one
place where it does not compromise
is in what we can call its Macintosh-
ness: rather gloriously, it behaves just
like your Mac at home. But this does
not begin to compensate for its glar¬
ing shortcomings.

There are plenty of bones to pick
with this computer — turkeys are loaded
with bones — but most of them organi¬
cally stem from the Portable’s design
philosophy. Basically, there are two
ways to go when designing a portable
computer. You can assume that people
will use it on the run (like all those
apocryphal executives spreadsheeting
away in Business Class), in which case
your goals are to try to squeeze out the
most from your batteries and to make
the thing small enough so people can
whip it out of a briefcase on a mo¬
ment's notice. Or you can target it to
people who want to move the com¬
puter easily from one place to another,
but will actually use it in places where
electrical plugs are within reach. Once
you're socked into the nation’s electri¬
cal umbilical, you needn't worry about
squeezing every’ last drop of power

from the batteries, and you don’t have
to design low-power custom compo¬
nents that drive the cost up.

Assault and Battery

Apple chose the former path and obvi¬
ously spent oodles of time and money
devising clever way’s to conserve pow¬
er. The circuitry is low-power CMOS
(Complementary’ Metal-Oxide Semi¬
conductor), the
hard disk drive
keeps shutting it¬
self off, and the
RAM chips are in¬
credibly costly stat¬
ic versions. The
happy result is that
users trekking into
the Mojave Desert,
or the few other
places in this coun¬
try’ where a power
outlet is not within
a dozen feet, can
use Wingz, FullWrite Professional, and
4th Dimension for as much as eight
hours (according to Apple) before
breaking camp to recharge the batter¬
ies. Unhappily, Apple did not fulfill the
second, and most important, require¬
ment of battery-powered machines —
size. In order to do your computing in

remote locations, you want a machine
light enough to accompany you on a
whim and compact enough to use in
those locations. Considerably bigger
than a breadbox and weighing in at a
satanic 16 pounds, the Portable is too
big and too heavy. Its battery, for
heaven’s sake, is lead-acid based—
practically a car battery’! Its avoirdu¬
pois makes it impractical for desert
treks, its size overwhelms the average
beach bag, and its bulk makes it too
awkward for comfortable airplane
use. (I figure its best airborne function
is as a deadly weapon dropped from a
bomb hatch.) Ultimately, it doesn’t
matter what Apple did to maximize
battery use because the Portable is

too much of a monster to be used
anywhere else than inside, on a desk
or table, where it’s easy to plug it into
the wall.

Once you do plug it into the wall,
you begin paying a performance price
for all those little battery-saving tricks
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that Apple misguidedly stuffed into
the Portable. Remember I mentioned
an ensemble of classic Macintosh soft¬
ware applications one might install on
the Portable’s hard drive? Well, Wingz,
FullWrite, and 4th Dimension are best
used on state-of-the-art Macintoshes
with more powerful processors than
the 68000 found on the Mac Plus or
standard SE. The Portable uses a low-
power CMOS 68000 version that runs
twice as fast as the chip on the SE—
but slower than the SE/30 or the Ilex.
(Apple’s excuse is that the mighty
68030 chip isn’t available in a CMOS
version.) Since extra RAM must also be
purchased in extravagantly priced stat¬
ic versions, an extra megabyte of mem¬
ory will cost you well over a thousand
bucks. And right now, 2MB of memory
is the most you can carry, not enough
for power computing (so forget about
System 7.0). In some respects, Apple’s
most expensive computer — this haby
costs around $6500 — is its wimpiest.

Let me give another example: the
hard disk. Apple has arranged it so that
if the hard disk isn’t accessed for a
while, it shuts itself off. When you in¬
voke an event that requires accessing
the hard disk, it turns itself back on —
and you lose a few seconds while things
get going. In this mode, the Macintosh
Portable is like Ronald Reagan at a
cabinet meeting, dozing off every' few
minutes and awakening with a start
when addressed directly. Most people
will find this feature annoying and take
the trouble to turn if off via the Control
Panel because they’ll be using the Por¬
table plugged into the wall.

And then there is the display, an
active-matrix LCD — superior to a stan¬
dard LCD but not superior to a backlit
screen, which allows for best contrast
and does not require a strong separate
light source to reflect off the panel.
Why isn’t the screen backlit? Battery
conservation. Of course, when you’re
plugged into the wall, you don’t care
about energy conservation — but you
suffer from the compromise.

Now certainly there are times, one
might argue, that all this conservation
might he essential. What about the
recent earthquake in San Francisco,
for instance, when the newspapers,
stung by the power outage, tried to
put out their next-day editions with
Macintosh technology? Well, as it

happened, I dropped in to the San
Francisco Examiner a few hours after
the earth moved and indeed found
portables in evidence in the darkened
newsroom. But they were MS-DOS
portables with backlit screens — the
reflective LCD Apple Portables would
have been useless.

On the Road

Hey, I tried to use the Portable on the
road. I even took it to a public seminar,
intending to use it to take notes. At
first, things seemed promising. People
who hadn’t seen the computer before
crowded around, admiring the distinc¬
tive Mac desktop on an LCD screen.
Then the meeting started, and I had
a few problems. The noise from the
standard Mac keyboard made my typ¬
ing rather distinctive, and the liberal
use of beeps common to Mac applica¬
tions drew some critical stares. (I
sheepishly used the Control Panel to
turn off the sound.)

That done, everything went swim¬
mingly fora while. I was having a great
time using the familiar Microsoft Word
to take notes on the fly, editing them,
and adding thoughts as some of the
speeches from the podium hit dull
spots. I was getting increasingly fond
of the nifty trackball. But after 10 min¬
utes or so, my legs, which had been
propping up the machine, began to
feel constricted. And my arms got
tired, typing from an awkward elbows-
askew position because the keyboard
was up against my belt buckle. (Other¬
wise the Macintosh Portable would
have slid ingloriously to the floor.) I
tried another position, crossing my
right ankle over my left leg for a new
ad hoc desktop. It took only 5 minutes
for the weight to bother me. After
about 20 minutes of shifting posi¬
tions, crossing and recrossing my
legs, and readjusting the computer on
my lap, I put the beast back into the
padded carrying case that Apple
generously provides Portable users. It
was back to pen and steno pad.

If Not the Portable. What?

1 hope 1 have made it clear that Macin¬
tosh users who need something more
portable than their current models
might not find the Portable the god¬
send that Apple has promoted it to be.
(continues)

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

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The words are those of Jonathan
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a NeXT™ Computer.

Certainly, then, Mr. Seybolds words
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The NeXT machine has caused
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graphics-along with expansive libraries
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The NeXT Computer streamlines
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exclusively for publishing. Not a bad
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To begin with, the NeXT Computer
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You can work on-screen with the hun¬
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You can output to any PostScript device,
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As the rest of the industry explores
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The NeXT MegaPixel Display pro¬
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But what are the alternatives? After
returning the demo Portable to Apple
(my one regret at not using it longer
is that by lugging it around I would
have had a chance to hulk up a la
Schwarzenegger), I explored the
other paths to portable computing
available to Macintosh users.

My previous solution to the prob¬
lem — the one I’d used while waiting
for Apple toshipa real portable — wasa
cheap Radio Shack Model 100. 1 used it
to record notes while traveling and to
jot down things when doing library
research. It had no disk drive of any
sort, but I could use the built-in mo¬
dem to send back files at the end of the
day. Or I’d wait until I got home and use
my ImageWriter cable to get files di¬
rectly into the Mac. The word proces¬
sor was barely more than a line editor,
the screen was microscopic and barely
readable, but the Model 100 did the
job. A snazzier version of this style of
laptopping is available with the Sin¬
clair, which has more memory and si¬
lent keys.

I figured that a better alternative
to this minimal degree of computa¬
tional power would be found with
some of the hot MS-DOS laptops that
have come our in the past year or
two. These seemed to be universally
lower cost and more compact than the
Portable. Why not use them on the
road, and later transfer data back to
the Mac with software designed for
that purpose? Certainly the inconve¬
nience of using the other style of com¬
puting couldn’t overwhelm the ad¬
vantages in price and portability
you’d get by using something from
Toshiba, Compaq, or NEC.

Gimme a Lite

I decided to test the latter. W hen I got
the NEC UltraLite out of the box, my
first thought was, Why couldn’t Apple
have used this as its model? The Ultra-
Lite is barely larger than a piece of bus¬
iness stationery and not more than an
inch thick. It weighs all of 4 'A pounds,
and when you lift the cover you get a
full-size keyboard and a legible backlit
display a Lx >ut the size < )f an SF.'s screen .
There are no disk drives, but there is
a 1- or 2MB internal silicon drive that
acts as a virtual hard disk; you can also
purchase credit-card-size silicon disks
to store information or load applica¬

tions. There’s a built-in 2400-baud
modem, too. And NEC includes a pro¬
gram called LapLink, but you’ll want
the Mac version that allows your Ultra-
Lite to convert its files directly to
your Mac software programs. Its cost
is bearable: I’ve seen it advertised
for well under $2000. What’s the main
compromise? Battery use. The Ultra-
Lite gives you only two hours on a
full charge, and if you don’t recharge
the computer at least every7 week,
you can lose the internal data. (By con¬
trast, the Macintosh Portable worries
like a Jewish mother over those
things and is full of warnings and fail¬
safe systems.)

fter ten minutes or so,

my legs began

to feel constricted and

my arms got tired

Still, this is a compromise one can
live with. Unfortunately, I quickly dis¬
covered something I couldn’t live
with: MS-DOS itself. After five years of
Macintosh computing, I could not
bring myself to deal with balancing
four kinds of disk drives named after
letters or typing arcane codes to copy
files. Just setting up the system was tor¬
ture: I felt like a bureaucrat in that
Kafkaesque movie Brazil. Then I
popped in the ROM card for a word
processor named XyWrite and almost
had a coronary. Yes, it’s a full-featured
word processor. But to someone
schooled in MacWrite, Microsoft
Word, and Nisus, the very idea of
moving the cursor to define the be¬
ginning and end of text blocks
seemed like slow death.

This issue is no small one. The
main reason I use Macintosh is that I
thrive on the environment: it treats
me like a human being. The UltraLite
is a magnificent piece of machinery,
much more sensibly conceived than
the Macintosh Portable; but it uses
MS-DOS, and I don’t want to live
there. However, I realize that there
are plenty of Macintosh users who
for professional reasons must main¬
tain a familiarity with the style of

computing used by the vast majority
of personal computer users. And they
would indeed find the UltraLite or
any other number of MS-DOS laptops
a superior alternative to the Portable.

How about the non-Apple por¬
tables that run like Macintoshes? I was
excited to see a prototype of some¬
thing called the Wallaby last August
at the Macworld Expo, but at press
time it wasn’t available, so I cannot
yet recommend it. Then there is the
Colby Systems Walkmac. Though
somewhat more compact than the
Portable, it’s nearly as expensive, and
not as cleverly designed (the mouse
port is on the left, giving us righties
a taste of discrimination). Also at
12 pounds (IS pounds with the bat¬
tery), it’s almost as much a briefcase
buster as the Portable. When will
people understand a terrific trans-
portable computer already exists at
half the price of these faux portables —
the Apple Mac SE/30?

I can’t really fault Colby — like any
other company trying to compete with
Apple in the portable market, Colby
has an insurmountable disadvantage
in not having license to duplicate the
operating system that makes Macin¬
toshes Macintosh. Colby literally has
to buy an SE and repackage it into a
portable, an approach that would
be doomed if Apple ever decided to
price the Portable reasonably.

The bottom line is this: though
the Portable is foolishly conceived
and seriously overpriced, there’s not
much in the way of alternatives. Unlike
in the hotly competitive MS-DOS
world, there is a monopoly in the
Macintosh universe. Any dreams of
4 */4 pound Macs with backlit screens
costing $2 000 will come true only at
Apple’s sufferance. I’m sure Apple
didn’t plan to deliver a computer as
disappointing as the Macintosh Por¬
table, but complacency might have
had something to do with it. As for
the pricing, one can only call it gall.

As Macintosh users, we are pris¬
oners of Apple Computer. And the
Portable is our ball and chain. □

Steven Levy is a Macworld columnist
and the author of The Unicorn’s Se¬
cret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius
(NAL, 19B9)

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Data Recovery Services
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If you’ve got the money, honey, they’ve got the time

But one solution has emerged in
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to use a combination of commercial
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data. Most of them have clean rooms
and special equipment to coax balky
and damaged drives into revealing their
secrets. Prices vary, but none are cheap.
Generally the services need to know
your model, the drive’s make and its
age, and the circumstances under
which you lost your data (including
any program you were using and what
function you were trying to perform).
Some of the companies will also repair
your drive for an additional fee.

“I like saving people’s butts on a
daily basis,” says Tony Alvarez, vice
president of Computer Peripheral Re¬
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repair experience from separate stints
with Rcxlimeand Seagate. His two-year-
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also has a brisk sideline in data recov¬
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ness coming from Mac owners.

“We’ve done work for newspapers
and magazines,” says Alvarez. “We’ve

almost never back up my files. Odds are,
neither do you. It’s every user’s dirty little secret. Sure, we own
backup software, but we don’t like to use it very often. And even if
we do back up, drives can simply die, taking our files to the grave.

Computer Peripheral Repair's Tony Alvarez (foreground) stands
over a table of damaged drives in the company's clean room.

even done work for the Pentagon . They
don’t back up either.” His company
claims an 85 percent success rate, which
means it recovers all of the data for 85
percent of its clients and less than 100
percent of the data for others.

The company charges an hourly
rate of $75 for its services, with a one-
hour minimum. Technicians call cus¬
tomers within the first hour to give a

time estimate. If you have a list of files
and can say which ones you want, the
process is faster and cheaper. The bill
for an average job varies between $300
and $375, says Alvarez, who promis¬
es data recovery within 72 hours. As a
courtesy, Computer Peripheral Repair
retains your files on a main¬
frame until you confirm that
you have restored them to a
hard drive.

The biggest service is
OnTrack Data Recovery of
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
(612/937-1107). Founded in
1987 as the outgrowth of
OnTrack Computer Sys¬
tems (which produces hard
disk utilities), the company
claims a 90 percent to 95
percent success rate. Some
15 percent of its business is
made up of Mac users, and
turnaround time is estimated
at three to five working days.

At least one competitor
acknowledges OnTrack’s
reputation. Alvarez cheer¬
fully concedes that OnTrack “has more
money than we do and is much more
sophisticated.” Sophistication comes
at a price, however. Customers are
charged a $200 diagnostic fee just to
see if data recovery is possible. Gener¬
ally the total cost runs between $300
and $700, according to the company,
but unusual cases have rung up bills of
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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

CONSPICUOUS CONSUMER

$2000. OnTrack keeps recovered data
on file for at least ten days.

Customers initially talk to a sales¬
person. who helps them decide if
sending their hard disks to the com¬
pany is a reasonable gamble. Realign¬
ing heads, especially on SCSI drives,
can sometimes be next to impossible.
“The tracks on drive platters are smaller
than a human hair and have minute tol¬
erances," says Stuart Hanley, manager
of engineering. And if a drive’s heads
have completely crashed into the plat¬
ters and destroyed the media, you can
kiss your files good-bye.

Mirror Technologies of Roseville,
Minnesota (612/633-4450), announced
last October that it was entering the
drive-repair and data-recovery fray.
Without it, the hard disk company
simply didn’t have enough work to
keep its tech department busy, ac¬
cording to Tim Maroushek, manager
of the tech-support group.

Mirror’s DriveCare program, as it’s

SERVICE

eader Robert Faison of Milwau¬
kee, Wisconsin, had a great
service experience recently
with a local Apple VAR. Faison went
to the company, called Heath-Zenith,
to get a RAM upgrade for his Mac
Plus. About a month went by before
he began trying to use MultiFinder
with his other programs. Much to his
dismay, the Mac began to lock up.
"There was no logic to when or where
this would happen. But it would hap¬
pen invariably every time I tried to use
the Mac," he writes.

Heath-Zenith talked to Apple and
determined that the Plus had a mar¬
ginal system board pushed over the
edge by the increase in RAM. The
warranty had expired six months ear¬
lier. Heath-Zenith offered to replace
the system board at cost, "which was
a very reasonable offer but I still
knew that I was about to be penalized
because I purchased the one Mac
Plus that had a marginal mother¬
board," writes Faison. Luckily, he had
Heath-Zenith employees T erry Beede
and Kevin Sandin in his corner. Aware

called, caters exclusively to Macintosh
owners. It’s less sophisticated than
larger services (the company doesn’t
have a clean room or use custom soft¬
ware, for example) but it’s also less
expensive. Repairs and data recovery
charges are based on flat fees, with a
discount for any data recovery done in
conjunction with a repair.

Prices for data recovery only are
based on size of disk: $97 for drives
below 40MB; $127 for 40MB to 79MB
drives; $167 for 80MB to 99MB drives;
$217 for 100MB to 199MB drives; and
$130 per hour for work on 200MB
and larger drives. Maroushek says his
company has an 80 percent success
rate so far and a turnaround time of
about ten working days.

Mace Data Recovery of Ashland,
Oregon (503/488-501 1), should also be
noted, although the company willingly
acknowledges at press time to having
experience with fewer than ten Mac
drives. Perhaps that’s unsurprising,

HEROES

of his disappointment, they called
their local Apple Computer represen¬
tative "several times and received
permission to install the component
at no cost to me," says Faison.

Last year Keith Taylor-Sharp of
Saint Paul, Minnesota, bought a Nut¬
meg 19-inchmonitorforhisMacPlus.
Later he decided to upgradeto a Ilex,
but first called Nutmeg Systems to
see if the double-page monitor would
workwithanewmachine. Thereader
was told he would need a new video
interface board. He was also told, "if I
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my new machine was up and run¬
ning. Nutmeg should be applauded
not only for its great products but also
for outstanding customer service."

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

March

Apple Warranty Watch

of Inadequate Warranty

given that the business grew out of
tech service for Paul Mace Utilities,
popular software for DOS computers.

“We all use really strange things to
do magic here,” says Rick Sechrest, a
data recovery technician. “The meth¬
ods are varied — we use whatever tools
are available that are already pub¬
lished, and sometimes we have to write
something new.” Mace uses existing
proprietary software, but programmers
on staff also write custom code as
needed to recover data.

Mace charges an evaluation fee of
$200 for hard disks, $100 for a set of
floppies. “On the Mac, the average cost
is about $350, depending on the size of
drive and the extent of damage,” says
Sechrest. It’s too soon to judge Mace’s
success with Macs, but the company
has a 93 percent recovery success rate
for PCs and turns around most of the
drives within three to five working days.

Data recovery services are a little
bit like emergency rooms — expensive
lifesavers under certain conditions. As
one company put it, “People send us
their hard drives because they’re in
desperate straits.” But you can avoid
those straits by backing up regularly.

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The fourth annual MegaMeeting
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FOR YOUR MAC

Never again will you
have to quit your
word processor
just to answer a
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edit those monstrous scanner files with
advanced graphics applications or develop
your own custom HyperCard stacks. More
memory means more power at your
fingertips.

PLUG IN INSTALLATION

Adding memory doesn’t require techni¬
cians in lab coats. You don’t even need a
soldering iron. Just open your Mac, slide
out the main circuit board, and plug in
your memory card. Complete instaliatic
instructions are included with each
memory kit.

mon

The chart explains exactly
what you need to achieve
the desired level of
performance.

WHAT DO
I NEED?

Our helpful sales
and technical
staff is standing
by to answer any
questions and
take the mystery
out of memory
upgrades. Mem¬
ory cards come
with one mega¬
byte on each
card and are usu¬
ally sold in pairs
- (2@$95each).

To upprade a

4-socket Mac Plus
or SE to this amount
of memory

Do this: (install in multiples ot two
only)

2 MB

Remove all four existing 256K SIMMs,
install two 1 M SIMMs, leave two sock¬
ets for future expansion.

2'A MB

Remove only two 256K SIMMs, install
two 1M SIMMs.

4 MB

Replace all four 256K SIMMs with four
1M SIMMs.

To upgrade an
8-socket Mac II, llx,
Ilex, or SE30 to this
amount ot memory

Do this: (install In multiples of four
only)

4 MB

Remove all four existing 256K SIMMs,
install four 1M SIMMs, leave remaining
sockets for future expansion.

5 MB

Keep existing 256K SIMMs, install four

1 M SIMMs in remaining sockets.

8 MB

Remove all four 256K SIMMs install
eight 1M SIMMs

To open your Mac Plus or SE, you’ll need
a specially designed tool — it’s available

from us as part of a handy tool kit for
just $15.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Memory chips come factory-installed on
plug-in cards, called SIMMS (Single In¬
line Memory Modules). Each one mega¬
byte SIMM card holds eight top quality,
memory chips. We carry chips by all tne
major manufacturers like Texas Instru¬
ments, Intel and Samsung. We also carry
the full line of Dove memory' products.

* Prices can vary a lot, based on qual¬
ity, speed and demand. At press time

our price for 1MB, 120 ns Samsung kits
is $95 Please call for the very latest
prices and availability. Our sales
staff will tell you what you need
and help make your choice an
easy one.

SPEED

Do you need 80, 100
or 120 Nanosecond
(ns) chips? Nano¬
seconds are oillionths
of a second, so an 80 ns chip
responds faster than a 100 ns
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tively slow 150 ns memory
chips. The 68020 processor
needs 120 ns (or faster) chip, and the
68030 Macs like the speedier model.

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Place your order byl2:00a.m.(E), week¬
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$3.00. There’s never been a better time
to consider a memory upgrade. Call our
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morning your Mac will be off to a brand
new start.

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MacWarehouse Memory Kit, you may return it
for a full refund within thirty days of purchase.
All you have to do is call us for a return authori¬
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paid, in its original condition, with the original
packaging and documentation.

ONE YEAR WARRANTY. MacWarehouse also
guarantees its Memory Kits against manufac¬
turer defects for one year from the date of pur¬
chase. We will repair the item or replace it at our
discretion.

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through February
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with the best hard
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business!

of low prices.

Let our helpful sales staff take the
hassle out of buying drive. They’ll
tell you which drive

mechanisms. each manufacturer
uses. They’ll ^ also tell you about
access speed, reliability, software and
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just return it to us within thirty days
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couldn’t be easier to use. We’ll tell you
which ones come pre- formatted —
ready to use right out of the box. You
just plug in, turn on your Mac and go!

If you do need any help, the Mac¬
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standing by our toll-free lines to assist you.

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Studio/ 1 and MacRecorder
(Electronic Art)

Buy Studio/ 1 and MacRecor¬
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Mac II and extd. keyboard .

Universal Laser Printer Stand

Computer Friends, Inc.

Maclnker (IW & IW II) .

Curtis

Computer Tool Kit (52 pc.) ....

Curtis Clip .

Disk Holder (holds 40) .

Jewel Surge Suppressors .

Ergotron

MacTilt-SE .

MacTilt ll-RGB .

Goldstein & Blair

The Macintosh Bible .

MacRecorder

MacSnap 4S (Dove)

The 4S is a 4 Meg memory expansion kit
that allows you to get the maximum
amount of memory in the Plus and SE or
a 4 meg upgrade for the Mac SE/30, II, IIx
or Ilex. The 4S uses state-of-the-art lmb,
surface mount CMOS SIMMs and guar¬
antees that today's memory investment
will continue to work and grow with you.
Step by step manual for easy installation.
Dove offers a toll-free number for service
and support, (memory) $409.

Nolo Press

For The Record .

WillMaker .

ShopKeeper Software

Bill-lt 2.0 .

Softview

MacInTax Federal '89 - 1040

State supplement-. .

Taxview 1040 .

Survivor

MacMoney 3.5 .

HandOff

I "...a nice, unobtrusive and

very much needed extension to my Macintosh/
— jean-Louis Gass^e, President, Apple Product;

HandOff (Software Innovations)

HandOff eliminates the "Application Not
Found" message from your Mac. Hand¬
Off lets you' open any document from the
Finder even if its application is missing.
Simply choose a compatible substitute
based on the document's creator or file¬
name extension. HandOff will automati¬
cally launch the substitute application and
open your documents! Ideal for the
networked office - no need to standardize
on a single application. Jean-Louis Gas-
see calls it, “a nice, unobtrusive and very
much needed extension to my Macin¬
tosh". (utilities) $32.

BLANK MEDIA

B.A.S.F. made in U.S.A

DS/DD (box of 10) .

DS/High Density (1 .44 Meg) .

Peripheral Land, Inc.

Turbo 40 Cartridge .

Sony

DS/DD (box of 10) .

BUSINESS &
PRESENTATION

A Lasting Impression

ResumExpert (word vers.) .

Adobe Systems, Inc.

TrueForm SetUp .

AEC Management Systems

FastTrack Schedule .

Aldus

Persuasion 2.0 .

Antic Software

FlexForm Bus.Temp Vol 1 or 2 ..

Ashton-Tate

Full Impact .

Apple

Toner Cartridges LaserWriter .

Avery Labels (full line available)

Color Coded 3.5 Diskette .

Laser 3.5 Diskettes .

Laser File Folders . . .

Laser Transparencies .

Basic Needs, Inc.

HardTop Keyboard Covers .

HardTop ImageWriter Covers .

Keyboard Flip .

Dust Covers - Grey Nylon Ripstop

ImageWriter or LaserWriter .

Mac Plus and keyboard .

Mac SE & extd. or reg. keyboard ....

ACCOUNTING &
PERSONAL FINANCES

Aatrix

Checkwriter .

Payroll 3.5 . .

Payroll PLUS .

TimeMinder .

Bedford (Computer Associates)

Simply Accounting . .

Brown-Wagh Publishing

MacLedgers . .

Service Industry Accounting .

DAC

Dac-Easy Light .

Intuit

Quicken 1.5 .

Layered, Inc.

at Once! . .

MECA

Managing Your Money .

Monogram

Business Sense . .

Dollars and Sense . .

I/O Designs

Imageware II Carrying Case .

Macinware Ilex Carrying Case ....
Macinware Mac II Carrying Case
Macinware Plus Carrying Case ...

Macinware SE Carrying Case .

Monitorware Apple RGB Case ....
The Ultimate SE Carrying Case ..
Kalmar

Rolltop Teak disk holder 45 .

Rolltop Teak disk holder 90 .

Kensington

Anti-Glare Filter .

Apple Security Kit .

Mac II Stand w/Cable Kit .

MasterPiece Mac II .

Macintosh SE/Plas w/Extended
Keyboard Carrying Case (Targus)

Pamper your Mac with a Targus carrying
case made of Zilicone treated nylon to
give you waterproof durability and an
impact absorbing high-density foam layer
with a soft protective lining for complete
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handles provide extra comfort and con¬
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Get everything you need for fast,
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Macs or a PC and a Mac.

The LapLink Mac Net-

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up to five Macs on an

AppleTalk network for

simple Mac-to-Mac file trans-

fers. Both versions include hard

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and much more, (communications)

Connectivity Pac (2 users) $119.

Network Pac (5 users) $189.

from

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MacInTax Federal '89-1040 (Softview)

MacInTax Federal '89-1040 guides you through
the process of preparing your Federal Taxes
(eight state tax modules also available at $56
ea.). Just type in the requested numbers, and
MacInTax does the rest. When finished, print
the completed return on the LaserWriter or the
ImageWriter. If you used MacInTax last year, it
reads those files and brings forward relevant
items, saving time and reducing errors. Its tax
planner shows the effects ofvarious tax strate¬
gies. (finance) $65.

FREE CATALOG!

We carry more than 1200 Macintosh
products, including all the latest releases
and new versions. We pride ourselves
on getting new products first. If you
can't find what you need, call us for a
free copy of our latest catalog.

SuperPaint 2.0 (Silicon Beach)

SuperPaint gives you the freedom of paint and the
precision of Draw in one easy-to-use program!
Features powerful AutoTrace to automatically
convert bitmapped Paint graphics into high reso¬
lution Draw objects, an adjustable Airbrush, and
a Freehand tool to quickly sketch editable ^ !
Bezier curves. You can mix fonts, styles and J

sizes within text blocks, and freely rotate, v “
scale, or slant text and graphics without
sacrificing high-resolution output. Over¬
sized documents automatically “tile" over
multiple pages, in either “Portrait" or "Landscape"
orientation, (graphics) $125.

Aperture Visual Information Manager
(Aperture Technology)

Aperture moves Macintosh graphics into a new di-
\ mension by integrating a precision drawing system
n with a powerful database manager. Aperture al-
L lows you to create detailed drawings, attach data to
K objects in your drawings, produce reports, link
K drawings together, and display data on your
B drawings to form complete applications . Whether
you are an architect, engineer, designer, space
planner, facilities manager, or someone who
needs to communicate complex ideas and
B\ information. Aperture will become your pro-
BB gram of choice. (graphics) $729.

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Freedom of Press 2.1a

MacPr 'i©ct II . 375.

Smarti orm Designer w/Assistant ... 295.
Cognition Technology

MmSMARTS PRO . 249.

Cricket (Computer Associates)

Cricket Graph 1 .3 . 1 1 5.

Cricket Presents . 285.

HyperPress Publishing

Intelligent Developer . 219.

Informix

WingZ 1.1 . 259.

Microsoft

Excel 2.2 or PowerPoint 2.1 . ea.249.

The Microsoft Office . 529.

Works 2.0 . 185.

Portfolio Systems

Dynodex-lnstant Address Book . 89.

Power Up

Address Book Plus . 53.

Address Book Plus w/Binder . 99.

Calendar Creator . 38.

FastForms! . 89.

(Custom Applications. Inc.)

Print PostScript language
files using more than 50
different printers and film
recorders. In combination
with your favorite desktop
publishing, graphics, draw¬
ing. painting and word proc¬
essing software, Freedom of
Press allows you to print
PostScript language files, in¬
cluding support for 24 bit
continuous tone color im¬
ages. Complete with 35
scalable and rotatable out¬
line fonts and drivers for all
supported printers. Re¬
quires Macintosh SE30, II.
Ilex, IIx or Ilci. (utilities)

$265.

RoadRacer (X.O.R. Corp.)

Drive a high-performance 1965 Corvette
through 5 environments from super high¬
speed desert flats to twisting mountain
roads. Uses digitized sounds, with spec¬
tacular scenery, obstacles, and wild
crashes. Fly over hills and around curves
at up to 200 mph. Score points for fast,
skillful driving by steering and accelerating
with your mouse and using your key¬
board for brakes and shifting. Each level
is tougher than the last. Has the most
sophisticated high-speed graphics ever
achieved on a personal computer. For
use on the Macintosh II, Mac Plus & SE.
(entertainment) $39.

COMMUNICATIONS
& NETWORKING

Aladdin Systems

Shortcut . 49.

CE Software

In/Out (1 to 5 Users) . 129.

QuickMail 2.0 (1-10 Users) . 249.

CompuServe

CompuServe Navigator 3.0 . 39.

CompuServe Subscription Kit . 9.95

Connect Inc.

MacNet . 47.

DataVIZ

MacLink Plus w/Cable 4.1 . 125.

MacLink Plus/Translators 4.1 . 109.

Dove

FastNet SCSI . 749.

FastNet III . 375.

FastNet SE or SE/30 . ea. 375.

Dow Jones

News/Retrieval Membership . 24.

Farallon

Timbuktu 3.0 . 95.

Timbuktu Remote 1.0.1 . 129.

TrafficWatch . 129.

PhoneNET PLUS . 33.

PhoneNET Repeater . 319.

PhoneNET Star Controller . 839.

FreeSoft

White Knight 11.0 . 89.

Hayes

Smartcom II 3.1 . 87.

InSignia Solutions

Soft PC (Mac II) . 245.

Infosphere

Liaison . 175.

MetaComet

AccuWeather Forecaster . 58.

Microcom Software

Carbon Copy Mac . 119.

Prodigy

Mac Starter Kit . 27.

Prometheus

Acknowledge . 289.

MAcKNOWLEDGE . .,.149.

Shiva

NetBridge . 339.

NetSerial X232 . 279.

Software Ventures

Microphone II v.3.0 . 219.

TOPS

NetPrint . 119.

FlashBox . 123.

FlashCard . 159.

Repeater . 129.

Teleconnectors . 29.

TOPS 2.1A 159

TOPS 3.0 Network Bundle . 189.

TOPS DOS . 123.

Traveling Software

Connectivity Pac . 119.

Network Pac . 1 89.

DATABASE SOFTWARE

Acius

4th Dimension 2.0 . 469.

AEC Management Systems

AEC Information Manager . 409.

Blyth

Omnis 5 . 375.

Claris

FileMaker II . 225.

Fox Software

FoxBASE+/Mac . 295.

QuadLYNX Trackball

The QuadLYNX Trackball uses
Honeywell aerospace technol¬
ogy to give precise fingertip
control over cursor movement.
This device offers much greater
precision in cursor placement
Just spin the trackball and the
cursor flies across the screen,
quickly and accurately to where
you want it Great for desktop
publishing. CAD/CAM, graph¬
ics and arcade games, (input)
$65.

Computer Eyes/Pro

Full-color video digitizer, cap¬
tures 8-bit or 24-bit color im¬
ages from any standard video
source for professional quality
imaging. Includes image ma¬
nipulation routines, (TIFF, PICT,
MacPrint). Images are compat¬
ible with virtually all graphics
applications, (graphics) Color
$349. Also available in B&W-
$209.

DOS Mounter

DOS Mounter is a utility that lets
the Apple FDHD SuperDrive in
the new Macintosh computers
access MS-DOS disks from the
desktop, instead of through
Apple File Exchange. With DOS
Mounter in the system folder,
MS-DOS disks appear on the
desktop and behave just like
Macintosh disks, (utilities) $55.

Preferred Publishers

Direct Mail . 54.

ProPlus

Wall Street Investor . 449.

Satori

Bulk Mailer 3.2.3 . 78.

Softstream International

Endeavour Planner . 95.

Symantec

More II 2.01 . 249.

Symmetry

KeyPlan . 249.

Synex

MacEnvelope 4.1 . 79.

MacEnvelope Plus . 149.

MacPhonebook . 40.

Vertical Solutions

FastLabel . 49.

CAD/CAE

Claris

ClarisCAD . 595.

Generic Software

Generic CADD Level 1 . 85.

Graph soft

MinCad+2.0 . 519.

Innovative Data Design

MacDraft . 175.

I.S.I.

Precision . 155.

St» ata

St -taVision 3D . 375.

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Virex 2.1

Virus detection and treatment
software. Intended for indi¬
viduals who have unusually
high risk of exposure to viral
infections, including Fortune
500 companies, and desktop
publishing firms. Useful for
those who use public domain
software or networks (secu¬
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Orbital Mech

A responsive spaceflight and
docking simulator designed for
all who've wondered at the
stars, at the motions of objects
in orbit , and about what it would
be like to fly a spacecraft in
orbit (entertainment) $29.

Managing Your Money

A fully integrated software pro¬
gram addressing every aspect
of personal and small business
finance Write and print checks,
set up a personal budget, esti¬
mate your taxes and more,
(finance) $124.

Panorama 1.5

Panorama combines the speed
and simplicity of a spreadsheet
with a forms generator, an
outliner, and business graph¬
ics. Think of it as a database
manager that looks like a
spreadsheet Its macro re¬
corder simplifies common
operations. It can turn any
ordinary database into an out¬
line with up to seven levels.
Panorama also creates person¬
alized form letters (and mailing
labels) without a separate word
processor. Winner of 1988
MacUser Eddy Award, (data¬
base) $257.

Acknowledge

Create stand-alone, custom
telecommunications applica¬
tions with the 1 989 Eddy Award
winning package. Develop and
use Mac-like point and click
interfaces to all types of online
information. A free copy of the
general purpose communica¬
tions program, MAcKNOW-
LEDGE is included. The pro¬
gramming environment in¬
cludes a syntax checker de¬
bugger and a split window edi¬
tor. (communications) $289.

Microsoft

File 2.0 . 125.

Od6Std

Double Helix III . 329.

GeoQuery . 199.

ProVUE

Panorama . 257.

DESK ACCESSORIES

Casady & Greene

QuickDEX . 31.

JAM Software

Smart Alarms & Appt. Diary . 49.

Smart Alarms (1 - 4 users) . 99.

Smart Alarms (5 - 8 users) . 149.

Smart Alarms (9-16 users) . 199.

Preferred Publishers

DAtabase . 69.

Vantage . 54.

Solutions

SmartScrap & The Clipper 2.0 . 45.

MintCad* 2.0 (Graphsoft)

This year MiniCad+ is the
people s choice, winning
both the U.S. and Austra¬
lian MacWorid World Class
Awards for CAD For the
price of most 2D CAD
packages, MiniCad+ pro¬
vides 2D. 3D. a hotlinked
spreadsheet and a pro¬
gramming language. The
quality is unsurpassed,
(cad/cae) $519
Blueprint

This new professional-
level 2D CAD program has
it all at an unbelievable
price. Layers, fillets, DXF,
constraint palette, high
precision, auto-dimen-
sioning. hatching, symbol
library, encapsulated post¬
script plus more . (graphics)
$349.

Cutting Edge

800K External Floppy Drive . 149.

SyQuest Removable 45 Meg . 829.

Under the Mac 20 Meg . 359.

Under the Mac 30+ Meg . 479.

Under the Mac 45+ Meg . 525.

Under the Mac 60+ Meg . 609.

Under the Mac 80+ Meg . 699.

Dayna Communications

Dayna File Single 360K (5 1/4") . 525.

Dayna File Dual 360K & 1 ,44M . 729.

Dolphin Systems Tech

Integra 20 Meg . 429.

Integra 30 Meg . 479.

Integra 40 Meg . 549.

Integra 60 Meg . 615.

Integra 80 Meg . 695.

Flipper 44 Meg . 879.

Fujitsu

800K Disk Drive . 159.

Kennect Technology

Drive 2.4 . 339.

Rapport . 209.

Peripheral Land, Inc.

Infinity Turbo 40 Meg . 1098.

Turbo Floppy 1.4 . 359.

Quantum

Quantum 40 MB Raw Drive . 499.

Quantum 80 MB Raw Drive . 829.

RasterOps

RasterOps Colorboard 264 . 760.

The “ULTIMATE" SE Carrying Case
(I/O Design, Inc.)

The "ULTIMATE" SE Carrying Case is de¬
signed with the same high quality stan¬
dards as our other MacLuggage products.
This case offers internal, padded com¬
partments for ANY Macintosh keyboard,
mouse, external hard disk and cables. It
also features 2 additional exterior pockets
for everything from disks to umbrellas.
Combine these features with sturdy Du¬
pont Cordura nylon and 1/2 inch high
density foam padding and you'll see why
this is the "Ultimate" carrying case for
your Mac. (accessories) $79.

EDUCATIONAL/

PERSONAL

Beacon Technology

GEMS of the Word . 25.

BrightStar

Alphabet Blocks . 30.

Talking Tiles . 27.

Bootware Software

ResumeWriter Pro . 58.

Davidson

Math Blaster . 27.

Speed Reader II . 27.

First Byte

The Dinosaur Discovery Kit . 27.

The Puzzle Storybook . 27.

The Rhyming Notebook . 27.

Fair Tide Technologies

Navigate! mono . 199.

Help Software, Inc.

Desktop Help for Excel . 50.

Learning Company

Math Rabbit . 31.

Reader Rabbit . 31.

MicroTech

Elementary Signer . 49.

Finger Speller . 29.

The Software Toolworks

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing . 32.

Visionary Software

Synchronicity . 39.

Voice & Video Instruction Videos
HyperCard or Pagemaker 3.0 ....ea. 35.
Word 4.0 Video Tape . 35.

StrataVISION 3d
(Strata)

Create scenes with
props, depth, shadows,
textures and reflections.

Adjust three different
types of lighting (direc¬
tional, spotlight, and
point source), move
camera, and rotate ob¬
jects to set up the perfect
rendering of your con¬
cept. Mapping allows
any 2D image to be
wrapped around an
object Import, manipu¬
late and render data from other 3D for¬
mats (Super 3D, MiniCAD+, DXF, IGES),
and 2D formats (PICT, EPS). Strat¬
aVISION 3d takes full advantage of the
32 bit Color QuickDraw. It prints Post¬
Script printers, film recorders, and video
recorders, (graphics) $375.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING

Aapps

Micro TV . 289.

Aldus

PageMaker 3.02 . 385.

PageMaker Color Extension . 135.

Broderbund

DTP Advisor . 47.

Data Translation

PhotoMac . 609.

Emerald City Software

Smart Art I, II, or III . ea. 85.

Icom Simulations

MacKern . 119.

Letraset

ColorStudio or FontStudio . Call.

ImageStudio . 275.

Ready, Set, Go! . 275.

Olduvai

Plus 1.1 . 115.

Read-lt! 2.1 (OCR) . 249.

Read-lt! Personal 2.0 . 125.

Read-lt! TS (ThunderScan) . 79.

Quark

QuarkStyle . 169.

Xpress . 459.

Spinnaker/Springboard

Springboard Publisher II . 109.

TimeWorks

Publish-lt! . 225.

DISK DRIVES/BOARDS

Aristotle Industries, Inc.

HardPac Mac 20 Meg . 469.

HardPac Mac 40 Meg . 749.

HardPac Mac 80 Meg . 1089.

HardPac Mac 105 Meg . 1229.

CMS

MacStack 20 Meg . 459.

MacStack 30 Meg . 499.

MacStack 45 Meg . 599.

MacStack 60 Meg . 649.

MacStack 80 Meg . 769.

MacStack 44 Meg Removable . 839.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Access Software, Inc.

World Class Leader Board . 27.

Artworx

Bridge 6.0 . 24.

Daily Double Horse Racing . 19.

GrailQuest . 19.

Broderbund

Ancient Art of War At Sea . 27.

Shufflepuck Cafe . 24.

Where in the World is Carmen . 27.

Bull City Software

Moriarity’s Revenge . 36.

Bullseye

Ferrari Grand Prix or P51 . ea 32.

Fokker Tri-plane . 24.

Centron Software, Inc.

Blackjack or CrapsMaster . ea 27.

CasinoMaster (5 pack) . 49.

Discovery Software

Arkanoid . 26.

Electronic Arts

Chuck Yeager Adv. Flight Trainer ....32.

Miles Computing

Fool’s Errand . 32.

Puzzle Gallery . 27.

Mindscape

Balance of Power, Deja Vu . ea. 30.

Hostage . 30.

The Colony or Gauntlet . 30.

Nemesis

Go Master . 49.

Joseki Tutor . 30.

Softstream

22nd Street Whist Tutor . 32.

MacRummy . 32.

Spectrum HoloByte

Falcon 2.0 . 31.

Tetris color version . 22.

Springboard

Hidden Agenda . 22.

Studio Zero

Orbital Mech . 29.

The Software Toolworks

ChessMaster 2100 . 32.

Cribbage & Gin King . 39.

Life & Death . 32.

The Hunt for Red October . 32.

Metro ImageBase Electronic Art
(Metro ImageBase)

High quality 300 dpi electronic art from
one of the world 's leading publishers of
ready to use art. Enhance brochures,
menus, reports, newsletters and presenta¬
tions. One large image per file - 100 per
package. Packages available: Newsletter
Maker. Business Graphics, Computers &
Technology, ReportMaker, Borders &
Boxes and 9 others, (graphics) $76.

XOR PCAI

Lunar Rescue or MacGolf 2.0 . 34.

MacGolf Classic . 53.

Road Racer . 39.

NFL Challenge . 54.

FONTS

Adobe

Adobe Type Manager . 56.

ATM Plus Pack . 109.

Fonts (full line avail.) . Call.

Forms and Schedules . 279.

Newsletters . 229.

Presentations . 279.

Textures, Fills, and Patterns . 129.

Altsys

Fontastic Plus 2.02 . 52.

Metamorphosis . Call

The Art Importer 2.0 . 89.

Emerald City Software

Type Align . 63.

Letraset

LetraStudio . 275.

LetraFonts (various) . ea. 69.

Tactic Software

ArtFonts Vol.l, 2 or 3 . ea. 55.

Orange Micro

Alphabits . 69.

FastLabel (Vertical Solutions)

.End label hassles with FastLabel - the
revolutionary way to print labels on the
ImageWriter and LaserWriter. Pre-format¬
ting instantly creates labels. One step text
loading from any commercial database.
Save hours of your valuable time!
(business) $49.

Envelope/Label Print

w™ mm tu u>u><c

M&cEmu elopfePlus

mm wow*

MacEnvelope 4.1

and MacEnvelope Plus (Synex)

Envelope and Label printing in
one package! MacEnvelope 4. 1
combines all of the features of
envelope and label printing in
one easy-to-use package. Import
up to 1600 addresses per file.
jB Unique Postal Bar Coding speeds
delivery and saves money on
postage (for bulk mailers). Over
fifty preformatted ready-to use
label and envelope styles. Cre¬
ate/save layouts, print graphics,
messages, fonts and color. $79
MacEnvelope Plus saves up to
100,000 addresses per file. Pro¬
vides list management features
such as comments, flags, multi¬
level sorting and print range,
(business) $149.

GRAPHICS & DESIGN

3G Graphics

Images w/lmpact

Graphics & Symbols 1 . 52.

Business 1 . 65.

Accents & Borders 1 . 65.

Adobe

Illustrator 88 1.9.3 . 279.

Photoshop . Call

Streamline . 229.

Aldus

Freehand 2.0 . 339.

Aperture Technology

Aperture Visual Information Mgr. ...729.

Broderbund

Drawing Table . 75.

TypeStyler . 129.

Casady & Greene

Vivid Impressions Vol. 1 . 67.

Claris

MacDraw II . 295.

MacPaint 2.0 . 95.

Cricket (Computer Associates)

Cricket Color Paint . 179.

Cricket Draw . 139.

Deneba

Canvas 2.0 . 169.

Ultra Paint . 125.

Digital Vision

Computer Eyes B&W . 209.

Computer Eyes Pro Color . 349.

Dream Maker

Cliptures, Business Images . 69.

MacGallery . 27.

Electronic Arts

Studio/1 . 97.

Studip/1 & MacRecorder . 21 1 .

Studio/8 . 299.

Graphsoft

Blueprint . i...349.

Innovative Data Design

Dreams . 325.

MacroMind

MacroMind Accelerator . 139.

MacroMind Director . 445.

VideoWorks II . 175.

Metro ImageBase
(Full Line Available)

Art Deco or ReportMaker . ea. 76.

Newsletter Maker or Business ...ea. 76.
Mindscape

ZING . 125.

Multi Ad Services

ProArt: Bus., Sports or Holidays ..ea.95.

Paracomp

ModelShop . 399.

Swivel 3D 1.1 . 299.

Omnis 5 (Blyth)

Omnis 5 utilizes the graphical interface,
enhanced memory, storage and color ca¬
pabilities for both the Macintosh and IBM
PS/2 hardware. It is designed to produce
data files that can be shared between the
Macintosh and IBM PC. Multi-user capa¬
bilities gives simultaneous data access
from both platforms. CL/1 and SQL con¬
nectivity allows Omnis 5 to access data
from the VAX or IBM mainframe. Hyper¬
Card access is fully supported by Omnis
5. Included is Omnis 5 Express which
allows the beginner to outline require¬
ments of an application and build then-
first applications.

(database)

$375.

ISiaM

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22nd Street Whist Tutor
or MacRummy

Whist Tutor teaches the basics
of this classic English card
game, the forerunner of con¬
tract bridge. MacRummy brings
two popular variations of
Rummy - Straight and Gin
Rummy - to the Mac for your
amusement and entertainment
(entertainment) $32 ea.

Dust Covers

Basic Needs dust covers look
great! Machine stitched and
custorn fitted. The covers are
made from washable rip-stop
nylon and won't crack, yellow,
or fade like similarly priced vinyl .
(accessories) Starting at $11.

CanOpener

Information retrieval utility for
the Mac. CanOpener will
search anywhere, and lets you
retrieve just about anything;
including text, pictures and
sounds. Locates text inside
pictures, and gives you the
whole picture! Anything you
retrieve with CanOpener can
be stored in its library, so the
next time you need it, it's just a
click away, (utilities) $65.

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Mac-101 Keyboards (DataDesk International)

Features 101 keys induding a numeric keypad, a separate T-shaped cursor
keypad, Cancel Key, Option and Command keys at both ends, definable
function keys, plus scrolling, page control, and zooming keys. Manufac¬
turer's two year warranty, (input/output) $139. International Versions also
available.

Select Micro Systems

MapMaker 4.0 . 245.

Silicon Beach

Digital Darkroom . 249.

Super 3D 2.0 . 315.

SuperPaint 2.0 . 125.

Strata

StrataVISION 3d . 375.

SuperMac

PixelPaint 2.0 . 225.

PixeiPaint Professional . 395.

Tactic Software

Art Clips Vol. 1 . 51.

Art Clips Vol. 2 . 65.

SoundClips Vol. 1 or 2 . ea. 49.

Zedcor

Deskpaint 2.0 . 65.

DaynaFILE

An external SCSI disk drive,
DaynaFILE allows Macintosh
computers to read and write
MS-DOS data disks as easily as
if they were Macintosh disks.
Available as a single-drive or
dual-drive unit, DaynaFILE can
accept 5.25" or 3.5” MS-DOS
disks in any format, (drive)
Single drive $525. Dual drive
$729.

ResumExpert

40+ eye-catching resume tem¬
plates fully-formatted in Word.
Quick and easy to use; just high¬
light the text and replace with
your own information. Manual
provides helpful writing tips.
Effective for students to CEO's.
Cover Letter edition also avail¬
able. 4 mice rating by MacUser.
(business) $39.

FileGuard Extended Edition

Protect your hard drives from
unauthorized access, copying
and erasure. Protect applica¬
tions and files from unauthor¬
ized access, deletion, and/or il¬
legal copying. Protect desktop
(including system folder) from
alterations by unauthorized
users, (security) Single Pack
$129. Office Pack 5 $309. Of¬
fice Pack 10 $559. FileGuard
1 04 - File Protection Only $ 125.

White Knight 11.0 (FreeSoft)

White Knight is Scott Watson's suc¬
cessor to the legendary Red Ryder
telecommunications program. It's
more than just a new version - the
added new features list alone is more
than 20 pages long! The 270+ pg.
manual has plenty of step by step tips
to help beginners communicate like
the pro's in no time. White Knight
comes bundled with Okyto, a revolu¬
tionary Mac-to-Mac file transfer pro¬
gram. A free subscription to the
GEnie network is also provided,
(communications) $89.

HARDWARE &
PERIPHERALS

Cutting Edge

Two Page Monochrome Monitor ....999.

DEST

Dest PC Scan Plus . SPECIAL 699.

General Computing Company
WriteMove Ink Jet Printer . 575.

Magnavox

Color Monitor 14" . 535.

Microtek

Microtek MSF-300GS Scanner .... 1589.

Mobius

Multiscreen Video Card w/

Princeton 15" monitor . 529.

Qume

Crystal Print Publisher . 2900.

Seikosha America

Seikosha Printer (dot-matrix) . 235.

Sharp

The Wizard . 249.

ThunderWare

LightningScan . 369.

ThunderScan 5.0 . 187.

HYPERWARE

Activision

Focal Point II . 117.

Reports for HyperCard . 69.

Bantam

Complete HyperCard Handbook . 22.

Beacon Technologies

HyperBible International Version ... 175.

HyperBible King James Version .... 145.

Brainpower

ArchiText . 199.

Casino Master (Centron)

Become a Master of Casino Gam¬
bling! Five separate casino games
include Blackjack Ace. Crapsmas-
ter. Roulette Master. Pokermas-
ter, and Baccarat Master Exact
table simulation, mouse con¬
trolled betting, selectable bank¬
roll, stored win/lose statistics
and complete manual in¬
cluded. Now available in daz¬
zling color in the Mac II version!!
ommended and used by professional
gamblers! (entertainment) Buy individual
games for $27. each or get the 5 game
Casino Master Package for $49. or the
Deluxe Mac II color version for $55.

Bright Star Technology

HyperAnimator 1.5.1 . 99.

interFACE . 229.

DataDesk International

HyperDialer . 29.

ICOM Simulations

HyperTMON . 59.

MicroMaps

HyperAtlas . 59.

Power Up

HyperTutor . 29.

Silicon Beach

SuperCard . 125.

Softstream International

HyperHit . 125.

Springboard

Family Matters . 28.

Symmetry

HyperDA 1.2 . 49.

TimeWorks

HyperWorks Organizer . 57.

INPUT/OUTPUT

Altra

Felix . 127.

Asher Engineering

QuadLYNX Trackball . 65.

Cutting Edge

CE-105 ADB Keyboard . 125.

DataDesk Inti.

Mac 101 Keyboards . 139.

International versions . Call

Kensington

New Turbo Mouse . 109.

Koala

MacVision 2.0 . 219.

Kraft

ADB Joystick Premium III (SE&II) ....49.
QuickStick . 39.

Kurta

IS/ADB Tablet 8 1/2x 11 . 255.

Mobius

Cordless Mouse . 99.

Mouse Systems

A+ Mouse (SE/II) . 79.

A+ Mouse (512/Plus) . 63.

Practical Solutions

The Cordless Mouse . 99.

Mouse Master . 57.

Summagraphics

Bit Pad Plus . 325.

LANGUAGES

Digitalk, Inc.

Smalltalk/V MAC . 129.

Microsoft

QuickBasic . 65.

Shana Corporation

Inside Out . 369.

SmethersBarnes

Prototyper . 189.

Symantec

THINK’S C 4.0 . 169.

THINK'S Lightspeed Pascal . 105.

Zedcor

ZBasic 5.0 . 89.

MEMORY UPGRADES/
ACCELERATORS

1 MEG SIMMS

Low Profile, 120ns High Quality
Single In-Line Memory Modules
for MacPIus, SE, II, llx.

2 yr. Warranty. New low price $95.

Dove (full line available)

MaraThon 030 Accelerator . 969.

MaraThon 030X . 969.

MaraThon Racer . 149.

MacSnap2S . 209.

MacSnap4S . 409.

MacSnap 8S . 818.

MacSnap 524E . 187.

MacSnap 524S . 239.

MacSnap 548S . 499.

HyperDialer (DataDesk International)

Now you can connect your Macintosh to
your existing business or home telephone
for automatic dialing with Apple's Hyper¬
Card. DataDesk's HyperDialer is designed
specifically for HyperCard's touch-tone
dialing capabilities and works with-line
business phones without requiring a mo¬
dem or dedicated phone line for auto¬
matic dialing. Automatically dials Hyper¬
Card, SideKick, Focal Point, C.A.T., Super-
Card and QuickDex phone numbers. It
connects to Mac speaker port - not a pre¬
cious serial port, (hyperware) $29.

■■■■

Many of our products come with a thirty day money
back guarantee, if you are not completely satisfied.
Ask for details when you place your order.

At Once! (Layered)

Take the worry out of bookkeeping. This
fast, fully integrated accounting package
includes a General Ledger, Accounts
Receivable and Payable, plus Payroll.

The list of indispensable features include
an extensive HyperCard tutorial and
context-sensitive on-line help. Reports
are fully customizable and a built-in print
queue lets you batch reports for unat¬
tended printing. For most businesses,
this is everything you need, all in one
place, (finance) $289.

MODEMS/FAX

Abaton

lnterFax12/48 . 265.

InterFax 24/96 . 425.

Best Data Products

SmartOne 2400/1200 . . 145.

Hayes

Smartmodem 1200 . 295.

Smartmodem 2400 . 429.

Smartmodem 9600 (V series) . 759.

Prometheus

ProModem 2400 SE Int . 209.

ProModem 2400M . 1 99.

Supra

Supra Modem 2400 . 139.

US Robotics

Courier 9600 Modem . 689.

MUSIC AND SOUND

Altech

MIDI Interface . 59.

Bogas Productions

Super Studio Session 2.0 . 65.

MADDIN SYSTEMS. INC

Coda

Finale . 599.

MacDrums . 31 .

Perceive . 50.

Electronic Arts

Deluxe Music Construction 2.5 . 85.

Deluxe Recorder . 99.

Esthetic Engineering

Music Mouse . 49.

Farallon Computing

MacRecorder (records sound) . 164.

Screen Recorder . 129.

First Byte

SmoothTalker . 33.

Great Wave

Concertware+MIDI 5.0 . 99.

HIP Software

Harmony Grid . 59.

Intelligent Music

OvalTune . 95.

Passport Designs

NoteWriter . 325.

Passport MIDI Interface . 89.

Primera Software

Different Drummer . 59.

Repertoire

Music Publisher . 359.

Resonate

Listen 2.0 . 62.

SECURITY &
VIRUS PROTECTION

ASD Software, Inc.

FileGuard . 125.

FileGuard Extend (office 5-pak) . 309.

TWINS . 109.

Fifth Generation

Disk Lock . 1 08

HJC Software, Inc.

Virex 2.1 . 55.

Kent Marsh

MacSafe . 107.

NightWatch . 87.

QuickLock . 57.

Mainstay

AntiToxin . 59.

Symantec Corporation

S. A. M . 69.

SPELLING/DICTIONARY
THESAURUS CHECKERS

Deneba Software

BigThesaurus . 59.

Spelling Coach Pro 3.1 . 115.

Electronic Arts

Thunder II . 49.

Lexpertise

MacProof 3.2.1 . 115.

Microlytics

Electronic Word Finder . 69.

Word Finder 2.0 . 34.

Sensible Software

BookEnds . 53.

Sensible Grammar . 51.

Shortcut (Aladdin Systems, Inc.)

Raymond Lau, author of Stufflt, has cre¬
ated another utility that you cannot
live without. (5 mice
MacUser award) Short¬
cut appears in every ap¬
plication's OPEN and
SAVE dialog with a menu
full of file/folder mainte¬
nance commands. A find
command will locate lost
files, instantly access fre¬
quently used files and fold¬
ers; create new folders,
rename or delete files/fold¬
ers, UnStuff (decompress)
Stufflt archives, and much
more! (networking) $49.

BackMatic (Magic Software)

BackMatic automatically backs
up your files each time you
shut down your Mac. Install
this handy INIT in your
system Folder, and you'll
never need to remem- 4
ber to make a backup
again. You can configure it
to backup only the files you've
changed, or all your most impor
tant files, (utilities) $50.

AutoSave II The AutoSave
DA is now the Auto¬
Save II CDEV (Con-
trol Panel Device).

Just drag it into your
system folder, and
AutoSave II will issue
a periodic Save Com¬
mand to the running
application. You can set
the interval between
saves from one to 99
minutes, (utilities) $29.

-TN

Dreams

(Innovative Data Design)

IDD, creators of MacDraft, offers a power¬
ful precision drawing tool for professional
scaled drawings, illustrations, presenta¬
tions and general purpose graphics.
Dreams offers zoom, rotation, layers, di¬
mensioning, symbol libraries and a vast
array of drawing tools, as well as many
advanced illustration features. You can
merge shapes together, cut edges of
objects using other objects as
templates... even glue lines and curves to¬
gether to form unique shapes to be filled
with colors or patterns, (graphics) $325.

Rapport

(Kennect Technoloy)

Now you can upgrade all of your older
Macs to Apple's new standard of 1 .44
meg, read MS-DOS, expand diskette
capacity to 2.4 meg, and backup an aver¬
age of 4 meg per disk, at a reasonable
cost. Mac 512e, Plus, SE and II (with
cable) simply plug Rapport into the disk
drive port, which allows you to read 720K
MS-DOS on your internal disk drive, or
read/write MS-DOS on your external
Apple 800K drive, (drives) $209.

Drive 2.4 Drive 2.4 is an option for
Rapport which reads, writes, and T'J
initializes all current IBM & Mac
3.5" standards, plus optional gg
formats of 1.2 meg on ,. :'\
standard disks, and 2.4
meg on high density % a.
media. Fastback II is
currently being
"bundled" at no charge
with Drive 2.4. (drives) $339.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Abacus Concepts

StatView II . 285

StatView SE+Graphics . 199

Brainpower

StatView 512+ (requires 512k) . 149

D2 Software

MacSpin 2.0 . 18S

Odesta

Data Desk Professional . 28S

Paracomp

Milo . 159

Select Micro Systems, Inc.

Exstatix . 219

Wolfram Research

Mathematica (SE) . 450

UTILITIES

Abbott Systems

CanOpener . / . 65

Affinity

Tempo II . 79

Aladdin Systems Inc.

Programmer’s Assistants . 75

Shortcut . 49

ALSoft

DiskExpress II . Call

Font/DA Juggler . 42

MultiDisk . 49

Master Juggler . 64

Berkeley System Design, Inc.

Stepping Out II . 50

CE Software

DiskTop 4.0 . 65

QuicKeys 1.2 . 64

Caere

OmniPage . 549

Central Point Software

Copy II Mac (with MacTools) . 24

PC Tools Deluxe For Mac . 45

Custom Applications

Freedom of Press 2.1a . 265

Dantz Development

Retrospect . 1 52

l>u can

now contact MacWAREHOUSE or place orders with us in

Electronic Mall on CompuServe. The MacWAEEHOUSE GO code

D MW As always, you'll get fast, dependable overnight service and
you can leave messages for Kerry or any of our support staff.

DiskFit

V~0¥*TIC BACKUP AND Rf^ONE FOR *OUR MAUD tWSK

DiskFit 1.5 (SaperMac)

A handy utility for backing up your hard
disk on a series of floppies. It saves time
because it backs up only those files which
have changed since the last backup.
DiskFit can verify each floppy after copy¬
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STATE OF THE MAC

The 24-Bit Question

Is CUTTING-EDGE COLOR READY FOR THE MASSES?

BY THOM HOGAN

life can be quite ironic. Here I am at that age
where my eyesight begins to sour and what should I add to my
desk but a 19-inch color monitor displaying 1152 by 882 itsy-
bitsy pixels. There’s a reason I’m exploring the state of the art in

Three different approaches to 24-bit color accelerators:
clockwise, from the top, are shown SuperMac's VLSI chip set,
RasterOps' AMD processor, and Radius's Acorn chip.

Mac monitors, aside from trying to go
blind a little faster. Virtually all of the
key players in video display systems
(except Apple, that is) now have some
form of accelerated 32-bit QuickDraw
available, including RasterOps, Radius,
and SuperMac.

Such QuickDraw systems appeal
to artists, anyone preparing color doc¬
uments for publication, and others
who need both a large degree of color
control and a large window size. In¬
deed, I now find myself doing desk¬
top publishing two pages at a time on
a Radius DirectColor system with a
two-page display.

As I ’ve pointed out earlier (see “The
Slowing of QuickDraw,” Macworld,
April 1989) video display on the Mac is
creaky because the Mac’s CPU has to
do much of the work, using software
instructions called QuickDraw to
manage what you see. One problem
with QuickDraw is that the CPU can’t
do other things while the display is
being updated. And the 68000, 68020,
68030 series processor is not as fast at
handling video instructions as a dedi¬
cated video processor would be. That
can be a particular liability with two-
page displays, since they have three
to four times as many pixels to update
as standard Mac monitors have. In¬
deed. as you increase the number of
colors and pixels you’re trying to ma¬
nipulate simultaneously — with CAD
packages, for example — performance

slows down even more. The CPU-mem-
ory combination in the Macintosh be¬
comes a bottleneck through which
every' video instruction must pass.

In late 1988 and early 1989 when
the first large-screen 24-bit color sys¬
tems became available, it was easy to
gripe about display speed. The CPU
was overwhelmed by the information
it had to move around in memory,
and you simply had to wait until that
process was completed before the
CPU could do anything else, like calcu¬
late a new number, find a file on
disk, move the mouse, and so on.
The terrible performance of these

early systems gave 24-bit color a
deservedly bad reputation.

RasterOps to the Rescue

RasterOps was first to hint that there
might be a better solution in sight. The
company’s ColorBoard 1 18accelerator
is a complete, separate pro¬
cessor board that handles
many — but not all — Quick¬
Draw requests. This board has
its own memory, its own
processor (an AMD QPDM),
and even some of its own
video display circuitry.

Ordinarily, when the
Mac’s processor encounters
a QuickDraw instruction in a
program, it uses that instruc¬
tion’s value to determine
which other set of instruc¬
tions in the ROM to execute.
(QuickDraw resides in ROM,
except for patches that are
installed into RAM memory
from a System disk; on all
machines except the Ilci, the
32-bit portion of QuickDraw
is a RAM -resident patch.) Af¬
ter executing the appropriate portion
of QuickDraw, the CPU returns to the
application for its next instruction.
Thus, in the ordinary' Mac world, the
processor constantly bounces backand
forth between executing an applica¬
tion’s instructions and portions of the
ROM instructions. The more drawing
intensive an application, the more likely
the processor will spend time dealing
with the QuickDraw code in ROM. (Re¬
member, one instruction in an applica¬
tion may equate to many QuickDraw
instructions that have to be executed
by the processor.)

(continues)

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

STATE OF THE MAC

HOW QUICK DOES QUICKDRAW DRAW?

RASTEROPS DEMO APPLICATIONS

Squares and Moving Moving Word 4.0 PageMaker

Color Options Diamonds* Line* Window' Scroll Redisplay 4

Radius System 1 -bit black-and-white n/a n/a 1:25.0 0:16.3 0:9.9

Mac II. DirectColor/24 video board, 1:21.0 0:16.3 0:8.6

QuickColor accelerator, 8-bit color 0:14.3 1:36.0 2:40.0 0:22.4 0:14.3

19-inch Radius color monitor accelerated 0:14.1 1:39.0 1:25.0 0:20.0 0:12.4

24-bit color

0:16.7

1:55.7

5:53.0

0:46.5

0:9.9

accelerated

0:15.4

1:36.0

1:56.0

0:26.7

0:7.9

RasterOps System

8-bit color

0:14.3

1:42.2

4:00.0

0:29.9

n/a

Mac II, RasterOps ColorBoard 118,

accelerated

0:3.9

0:18.1

0:20.7

0:19.6

QPDM accelerator, 1 9-inch Hitachi color monitor

RasterOps System

SE/30, RasterOps ColorBoard 264 SE/30,

24-bit color

0:13.0"

1:17.6

4:08.0

0:46.0

0:7.5

1 3-inch Apple color monitor

Apple System 1 -bit black-and-white n/a n/a 1:02.0 0:18.6 0:8.2

Mac II, Apple video board, 8-bit color 0:15.5 1:32.0 1:14.0 0:25.5 0:9.3

1 3-inch Apple color monitor

* Consecutive color boxes randomly written to the screen. ' Involves 24-bit color image, which must be dithered in non-24-bit modes.

f Ten color lines that move randomly across the screen. If only one number appears, then no acceleration option was available.

* Fixed-size window redrawn around the screen.

(times shown in minutes: seconds, tenths of seconds)

These tests validate Radius's claim that a 24-bit-color Mac system with Radius products operates at virtually the same speed as standard 8-bit color. But if true
display speed is what you're after and you only need 8-bit color on a Mac II, consider a system using RasterOps' 8-bit board and accelerator. If you're after the
fastest unaccelerated 24-bit solution, check out the RasterOps ColorBoard 264 for the SE/30. The SE/30's excellent performance is a result of the machine's
Processor Direct Slot; virtually all of the speed difference can be explained by the fact that the PDS does not have the overhead required by NuBus video. Mac II
owners should demand that Apple add a PDS to the II lineup. (Note that windows have been sized to fill applicable monitor entirely.)

The RasterOps idea was to inter¬
cept certain QuickDraw instructions
and send them to the accelerator
board. This accelerator understands
specific QuickDraw functions (like
FillRegion, Drawl.ine, and so forth) and
is optimized to execute them faster
than a 680x0. The speedup is mitigated
somewhat by the time needed to
pass the instruction from the 680x0
through the NuBus to the accelerator.
It’s sort of like a relay race for bits: the
CPU has to pass the baton off to the
accelerator board, which slows things
down slightly at the exchange, but
otherwise the two run at their maxi¬
mum pace. RasterOps uses the Nu-
Bus’s block-transfer mode capability
to keep the amount of time it takes
to pass the instruction down to a mini¬
mum. Block transfers, for example, run
at about 27MB per second, while the

usual NuBus transfer rate is closer to
4MB per second. Overall, the Raster¬
Ops approach significantly speeds up
many aspects of 24-bit color drawing.
Virtually anyone can tell the difference
in display speed when the accelerator
is operating.

But why does the RasterOps accel¬
erator (and most of the available Quick¬
Draw accelerators) intercept only some
of the QuickDraw commands? Why not
all? There are two quite different rea¬
sons. First, the 680x0 can handle some
QuickDraw actions faster alone than by
passing the baton to another proces¬
sor. Second, some portions of Quick¬
Draw are protected by patent and would
be difficult to implement in a separate
mcxlule anyway, since Apple’s patented
design requires a unique combination
of CPU, memory, and video circuitry.

You probably haven’t heard much

about the RasterOps QuickDraw accel¬
erator for several reasons. To begin
with, RasterOps hasn’t promoted it
much. That’s partly because the com¬
pany’s product lineup has been chang¬
ing, and the accelerator only works
with some of the RasterOps boards.
More important, however, is that Ras¬
terOps’ 24-bit color solution preceded
Apple’s. Until Apple officially shipped
32-bit Color QuickDraw in the spring
of 1989, there was no official standard
for 24-bit color. Indeed, the early boards
from RasterOps, including the accel¬
erator, use a different scheme for main¬
taining the video display information
than Apple decided to use.

Official QuickDraw

Here in 1990, of course, things have
changed. The Apple-endorsed color
(continues)

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standard has attracted a wide range of
interest. At one end of the spectrum
we have video-board makers scram¬
bling to grab market share before Ap¬
ple gets around to making a board of
its own. At the other end, software
developers are adopting Apple's stan¬
dards in their programs, meaning
there is more reason to buy a video
board that understands 32-bit Quick¬
Draw. The user, in the middle, is the
winner, at least in this case.

As I write this, RasterOps, Radius,
and SuperMac all offer both 24-bit col¬
or boards and companion accelerators.
Each company seems to have a slightly
different take on how the acceleration
should be done, so each accelerator is
somewhat different from the others.
RasterOps uses an AMD processor,
Radius an Acorn (British) processor,
and SuperMac its own proprietary
VLSI chip.

RasterOps and Radius use separate
accelerator and video boards that
communicate with one another
through the NuBus. This has the ad¬

vantage of allowing acceleration to be
an add-on feature and the drawback of
wasting valuable time communicating
through the bus. In my opinion, unac¬
celerated 24-bit color is pretty much
unusable, so the option of adding these
accelerators is not really an option.

SuperMac’s accelerator, called the
Spectrum/24 Series III, takes an all-on-
one-board approach (owners of the
low-cost ColorCard/24 can buy an add¬
on version of the accelerator for less
than $500). Consequently, the Series
III does not require an extra NuBus
slot, and it should run slightly faster
since it doesn’t have to relay communi¬
cation between the accelerator and the
basic video functions. More interest¬
ing, however, is SuperMac’s claim that
its board accelerates all QuickDraw
operations. I haven’t been able to evalu¬
ate this claim since the board was intro¬
duced just as I finished writing this
column, but if it’s true, the SuperMac
board should be even faster than the
RasterOps and Radius boards I did
evaluate. The Series III board repre¬

sents the approach I think we’ll see
more and more third-party developers
take: a stand-alone, performance-
oriented module that works with soft¬
ware independent of the Mac’s CPU.

So How Fast Are They?

But all three available QuickDraw ac¬
celerators perform basically the same
function: speeding up the Mac’s dis¬
play of the millions of pixels that make
up a 24-bit display. The question you’ve
probably been waiting for me to an¬
swer is how fast are they?

Radius, for example, claims its 24-
bit accelerator makes 24-bit color
perform at the speed of 8-bit color.
SuperMac goes further, saying that its
product makes 24-bit color perform
like unaccelerated 1-bit monochrome.
RasterOps doesn’t publish any such
claims (at least none I’ve come across),
but simply asserts that its accelera-
tor-24-bit combo performs better than
Radius’s.

Well, it seems obvious that I need¬
ed to run a few tests to sort out these

claims, so that’s just what I’ve done.
As you can see from the results in
“How Quick Can QuickDraw Draw?”
the Radius combo does come quite
close to standard 8-bit color perform¬
ance. A few of the tests show it to be
slightly slower, a few slightly faster, a
few about the same. In general, I think
the results justify the claim.

That’sespecially true when you con¬
sider that I biased the tests slightly
against the 24-bit color displays. The
Word 4.0 scroll test, for example, which
scrolls one page at a time, doesn’t fac¬
tor the different screen sizes. The 24-
bit color display had about 800 pixels
to scroll at a time, while the standard
color display only had to deal with
about 450. 1 purposely allowed this
difference for one reason: it mimics the
way we tend to use each of the sys¬
tems — we tend to use the entire screen
whenever possible. Thus, the fact that
the Radius 24-bit color system per¬
formed about the same as the standard
Apple color system is quite an endorse¬
ment. Without sacrificing speed, you

get almost four times the screen area
to work with and 24-bit color to b(X)t.

Personal Observations

I’m most familiar with the system I have
at home, which includes a Radius two-
page display, 24-bit color board, and
accelerator. Radius challenged me to
leave 24-bit color on all the time. Had
1 tried this with any system a year ago,
I’d be writing this from the loony bin
(if I was writing anything at all). I’m a
frenetic worker, often mousing along
ahead of the system, moving windows
and drawing things all over the place. I
have to admit I’m a speed freak when
it comes to computers — I even think a
Ilci is a bit slow at times. Thus, it really
was a challenge for me to leave on 24-
bit color. But I did. For the last month
I’ve done my usual work in PageMaker,
Word, Excel, FileMaker, and Tycho with
24-bit color on, even though none of
these programs has much if any ability
to use the extra subtleties 24-bit color
provides.

I’ve been pleased by the results, at

least as far as performance goes. Even
though I had to take my Orchid
MacSprint II board out in order to get
the Radius system to work properly,
I've noticed no particular slowdown
due to the video display. My tkx'u-
ments scroll and appear at about the
same rate as before, allx-it in a much
larger display area.

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Take the monitor itself. Radius, like
most of the other companies, uses a
Sony Trinitron monitor as the base of
the system. These monitors are heavy
and take up an enormous amount of
desk space (Radius supplies a monitor
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60Hz or lower), but that it jitters — a
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problem largely evident when I’m us¬
ing the Apple 13-inch color display
sitting next to it. Once I switch off
the Apple monitor, the jitters are much
less apparent.

Another problem I encounter is
drifting convergence. When my moni¬
tor is first turned on, its red, green,
and blue guns are not aligned correct¬
ly. As the monitor warms up, they seem
to drift into convergence. So I’ve
learned not to try to sit down at the
monitor and work right after turning
it on. To do so is frustrating since I’ll
find myself constantly adjusting the
V-Stat and H-Stat controls to try to fo¬
cus the picture. Instead, I wait half an
hour or so before trying to use the
system. Not all Trinitron monitors
have drifting convergence, but this is
not the first one I’ve had this problem
with: so I guess I’m just on the un¬
lucky end of the review-equipment
queue.

Next in the list of problems is-that
of the Mac II’s power supply. The Ra¬
dius combination of boards draws 7
amps of + 5 volt power. Apple says that
at this voltage the Mac II power supply
is capable of putting out 18 amps of
power, ofwhich only 12.8 amps should
be drawn by expansion boards. That
means that in just two slots I have used
up more than half the available power,
so it’s unlikely I could ever fill all six
slots with the Radius boards already
grabbing all that juice. Indeed, the
amount of heat my machine throws
out (with three boards installed, 5MB
of RAM, and an 80MB hard disk) is
prodigious.

On the software side of things, I’ve
noted a few strange occurrences that
seem to be attributable to the Radius
DirectColor system. As I already noted,
the Orchid MacSprint II board and
caching software don’t work with the
DirectColor system. What’s frustrating
is that everything will appear to work
but then quit the first time I select a
menu bar or dialog box. Even turning
off the MacSprint II board’s caching
didn’t help. Apparently the board
changes the timing on the CPU’s exter¬
nal bus connections just enough to
interfere with the DirectColor board; I
had to completely remove the
MacSprint II from my system. Of
course, I suspect other such add¬
ons, like Dove’s new caching board,

might have similar problems, but I
haven't been able to verify this. There¬
fore, the usual caveat applies: if you’re
looking at these 24-bit color systems,
make sure you have an expert install
them and test them with the options
you use in your machine before you
accept the purchase. And while you’re
at it, check out the power draw to
make sure that you aren’t exceeding
Apple’s guidelines.

Other side effects of installing Di¬
rectColor seem minor and, at worst,
are merely annoyances. One example
is that I use the Kolor CDEV to color the
interface. If you make changes to the
interface colors with 24-bit color active,
I can promise you that the interface
colors will change w hen you switch to
8-bit color mode. However, if you use
Kolor in the 8-bit mode and then switch
to 24-bit mode, colors remain pretty
much the same. This is true of all color
definition . Anytime you choose a color
w hen 24-bit mode is active, you stand a
high risk of picking a color that is not
closely matched in the 8-bit mode. So
always pick colors in the 8-bit mode
unless you’re selecting a color you will
only use in 24-bit mode or for which
you need the extra subtlety. That seems
obvious enough once you start using
the system, but nowhere have I seen
this simple rule of thumb stated.

It's Show Time

Buying a 24-bit color video display sys¬
tem without buying an accelerator for
it is just nonsensical and bound to lead
to frustration. Luckily, the $795 Radius
QuickColor accelerator seems a bar¬
gain when you consider that it makes a
previously unusable system practical.
With the availability of such products, I
can only conclude (despite minor
nitpicks) that accelerated 24-bit color
systems are finally mature enough to
win a permanent place on desktops.
Yes, Virginia, there is a 24-bit color
system that looks like it’s finally ready
for prime time. □

This is Thom Hogan 's last column for
Macworld. Thom is president of Mac-
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An interview with Richard Skeie, president of CE Software

grew up in Des Moines , Iowa. After a
stint in California as a contract pro¬
grammer with BASIC Four Comput¬
ers. Skeie returned to Iowa in 1978 to
found Computer Emporium, one of
the first, and the largest, of Iowa ' s
computer retail stores. In 1979 he
founded CE Software as an offspring
of the retail store. The company now
has about 30 employees and will grow
to a $10 million company sometime
this year. Together with Don Brown,
vice president of engineering, and
John Kirk, CFO, Skeie has made CE
Software, one of the last indepen¬
dently owned producers of Mac soft¬
ware, into one of the most successful.

MW How do you think your business
experience with a computer store
helped you become a computer soft¬
ware developer?

SKEIE In the early days I gave talks on
how to start small businesses because
of the lessons I had learned starting the
company. For example, my budget for
advertising the Computer Emporium
consisted of talking about the store
wherever I could. I told groups how
not to do it. I talked to people about
how to start a small company and gave
them information about computers.

Computer Emporium sold Alpha
Micro computers on the high end and
Apple IIs on the low end. When we
opened our doors, we spread out our
arms and said, here we are, come and
get us. In the first month our total sales
were one magazine. In the second
month we doubled our sales — two
magazines. There was a 100 percent
improvement, from $2.06 to $4. 12. but
we got in trouble for paying taxes late
tin that money. In the third month we

sold 12 systems and made up for the
first two months. We lost four of our
seven investors in the first few months.

MW When did you start developing
software?

SKEIE In 1979. Our first product was
MFI, a multifield inventory for the
Apple II. The database was written in
BASIC by Don Brown. Don was a col¬
lege student at Drake, majoring in
actuarial sciences and minor-
ing in computers. I told him
that if he came to work for us
we would build a business
around him. It has worked
out incredibly well. Don
remains today, with a staff of
seven programmers, and is
still the visionary that pulls it
all together.

MW Did your first product
succeed?

SKEIE It kind of went by the
wayside. Our first nationally
focused product was Sword
Thrust, a series of adven¬
tures based upon the first
package of the same name.

We did national ads for that program.
We had Mission: Escape, our firstgraph-
ics application. We did Wall Street, a
stock market simulator. Then we went
into business software.

MW When did you start work on the
Macintosh?

SKEIE When the Lisa came out we
shelved everything else and went into
development for the Mac. By the time
Lisa was shipping, the Mac was in the
air, so we began Mac development on
the Lisa. The first product was DAM,
Desk Accessory Mover. It was a full

year before Apple developed a prod¬
uct, Font/DA Mover, that was similar—
which they proceeded to give away.
So we stopped development for D.AM .
That was the last time we stopped
development on a product because
Apple was going to give one away free.

An interesting note on DAM: when
we discontinued it we got a massive
number of dollars from users who had
used and not paid for the software.

One of those quirks of human nature.
Part of the psychology' of shareware is
the process of procrastination, which
works against developers.

MW DAM was similar to Apple’s Font/
DA Mover?

SKEIE They looked similar, but Font
DA Mover created files that weren't
compatible. We later wrote a conver¬
sion program. And at the time they
shipped DA Mover we had thousands
of copies out there of our product. We
sold it as shareware for $15. We also
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had DAs that went along with DAM,
like Executive Decision Maker. It was
kind of a joke product, like one of those
black eight balls that you turn upside
down and it says, “Concentrate and
ask again.”

The biggest end-user problem at
the time was to take DAs off the sys¬
tem. Essentially with DAM you had
the ability to put DAs in place, take
them away, and save them as files to
be moved to other machines. Apple's
product did that and saved fonts all
in the same program.

MW Wasn’t that early for shareware?
SKEIE It may have been the first
shareware product on the Mac; I’m not
certain.

MW How did you distribute DAM?
SKEIE With bulletin boards and user
groups, we shotgunned it to all of the
people that we thought were impor¬
tant for distribution. Inside we had a
message that if you used it, to please
send in $15.

MW And you made money like that?
SKEIE Oh yes, considering we only had
Don Brown and the Computer Empo¬
rium clerks for support and paper¬
work. We have always had fairly low
overhead.

MW How big is CE Software today?
SKEIE About 30 people, and we’re still
based in Des Moines. As to the num¬
ber of products we have, you have to
start with QuickMail. There are lots of
related products, so it’s hard to count,
but I’d say 9 to 14 depending upon
definition.

MW After DAM?

SKEIE We started creating desk acces¬
sories. We did MockWrite. Mock was a
takeoff on the name MacWrite. Mock
was a takeoff on all the products
named Mac-this and Mac-that. We did
MockPrinter, MockChart, and Mock-
Terminal. Later we put out the Mock
software as MockPackage for $25. We
alsodesigned a product that never saw
the light of day, which was named
MacDesk. A week before its debut we
sold it to Borland.

MW VCTiat was it called by Borland?
SKEIE SideKick for the Mac.

MW Did Borland do well with it?

SKEIE Probably. Definitely it sold in
the tens of thousands. We heard a ru¬
mor that the preorders were for abqut
40,000 units. That experience caused
us to decide to become our own
publisher. That process of selling prod¬
ucts into someone else’s hands made
us think of merging the process of de¬
velopment and publishing.

MW What has
happened to the
MockPackage?
SKEIE There have
been many addi¬
tions. Now it’s the
MockPackage
plus utilities like
Aask (an INIT
manager), CDEVs
(EZ Menu, Wid¬
gets, Control-1,
LaserStatus),and
an AppleShare
program called
Foldershare,
which allows pref¬
erences to be set.

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MW So you have

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market?

SKEIE In terms of community involve¬
ment we occasionally give things away
for free. Vaccine [an antiviral utility] is
an example. It’s another category of
product, called freeware.

MW When did you distribute that?
SKEIE When the virus outbreak hit,
during that turmoil. Don Brown’s re¬
sponse was to write a temporary pro¬
tection product. When the situation
arose we had a meeting and said, What
agreat market to be in. There would be
automatic upgrades, built-in demand,
and we thought, Boy, that’s damn
cynical for the customer.

If you want something to go away,
you ignore it. Safe backup techniques
are some of the things that you use for
protection against a virus. A perfect
example is our manufacturing process,
which is done in an isolated area. We
back up our programs frequently. We
write-protect disks before we place
them in someone else’s machine. Our
philosophy with Vaccine was to get
something out to everyone instantly.

We gave Vaccine to safeguard every¬
one, free of charge with no update
promises — to bulletin boards, to user
groups. Sent it to all the sources we
thought were distributors, Compu¬
Serve probably first.

MW Will CE still write shareware?
SKEIE No. Freeware is given to the
community that is our roots, or an
integral part of the Mac community.
It’s part of the give-and-take of our
work. Doing things once and then giv¬
ing them away free is our way to
participate.

Our product Calendarmaker actu¬
ally began as a gift to customers. Its
first distribution was public, after the
Mock Package. We never intended
Calendarmaker to be a product. We
sent it out to our customers instead of
a Christmas card. We put a MacPaint file
on it and sent it out with the calendar.
Our customers suddenly gave us a lot
of feedback on what they would want
in a calendar product.

MW Do you still have any Apple II
products?

SKEIE We still occasionally fill an or¬
der, but rarely, and for the most part
we ignore that market.

MW What is your best-selling product?
SKEIE QuicKeys is our best-seller in
terms of units, QuickMail in terms of
dollars. QuicKeys is in the ballpark of
100,000 units and sells for $99.95 retail.

MW Are DAs and INITs going away, as
Apple indicates?

SKEIE If that’s true, then Apple seems
to be making its own. Look at how
Apple wrote the access to its CD ROM
— with a DA. I’m hard-pressed to
give examples, but Apple regularly
embraces DAs in its work. System 7.0
will support DAs and INITs while of¬
fering new ways to get those capabili¬
ties. Apple’s position is that DAs as we
know them today will go away. And if
you believe that System 7.0 will be on
all machines overnight, then that’s pos¬
sible; but if it takes two years, then I
know some developers who will kick
themselves for not capitalizing on the
usefulness of DAs. Like Dave Johnson
of Working Software with Spellswell:
he could have developed DA access
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earlier, hut he took Apple’s position
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MW What software do you most ad¬
mire, not including your own?

SKEIE PageMaker, which has been in¬
strumental in our business for chang¬
ing our ads and materials to be re¬
sponsive toourcustomers. I’m a Micro¬
soft Word fan, or should say I was; I
recently started using MacWrite II. I
like its versatility of automatically con¬
vening the files of others who are not
using the same program.

MW What is the
best DA for the
Mac?

SKEIE The sexiest
I have seen —
simple, honest,
and straightfor¬
ward — is Kiwi En¬
velopes. I love
Acta. DeskPaint is
another.

MW What’s the
origin ofthe prob¬
lems of INITs?

SKEIE That’s a bit
out of my realm.

Apple gave us
the capability to
do INITs without
creating a shell
of safety to go
around them . There is no management
of INITs in the system; they conflict
with each other. Essentially, the low¬
est-named INIT [by alphabetical ar¬
rangement] loads first. There is noth¬
ing in place to say what resources an
INIT gets. Also there’s the matter of
poorly written INITs. And because
INITs don’t reserve system heap, you
run out of room for programs in the
system heap. When there is no mem¬
ory for them, they do flaky things.
Several well-written INITs work great
together. Our support department says
it goes into fits when someone calls in
with 60 INITs, 40 of which we’ve never
heard of.

MW What’s AppleMail all about?

SKEIE It’s a twinkle in the eye of its
creators. But seriously, I don’t know
what Apple is doing. Since they’re

trying to be more responsive to the de¬
veloper community, my guess is that
Apple will provide a suite of protocols
and system capabilities into which de¬
velopers can tie application aspects,
rather than directly competing. We’ll
see. Apple’s not talking about Apple-
Mail because it’s too early for them to
know what they’re doing with it, or
even if they’re doing it, and I’m not in
a position to speak for Apple.

Our advantage is that we tie into
other platforms. If that is central to
Apple’s strategies, we have to worry,
but I don’t believe it is. If not, Apple’s
adding a check mark on the list of fea¬
tures for Mac products.

MW How can CE Software compete
with Microsoft Mail?

SKEIE Well, we don’t second-guess
them. We’re responsive to the market
and, as always, we move fast. We had
QuickMail out one year ago, now
we’re in version 2.0 within six months
ofthe first release. We had a number of
mail firsts: extensibility, store -and-for-
ward messaging, gateways. And we
provide unparalleled service.

MW Prove it.

SKEIE We received an award from the
members of APX [Apple Professional
Exchange] . They polled their members
and asked who gave the best support
on products. We came in first for
QuickMail and second with QuicKeys
in a three-way tie for second.

MW How can a small computer com¬
pany compete with the larger compa¬
nies such as Microsoft?

SKEIE If a product such as mail be¬
comes the most important product to
Microsoft, we can’t. But if they treat it
like any other product, we can. We
focus on it. We have six developers
on mail. Their development group is
actually smaller than ours. They’re an
awesome marketing force, but there
are lots of people who focus on prod¬
ucts and excel in competition with
Microsoft.

Wingz is doing quite well, for ex¬
ample. WordPerfect was a small com¬
pany that came up against Microsoft
and others. Even an extremely small
company in the Mac market is still vi¬
able. Niches are now the size of the
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entire original Mac software market.
There are lots of niches, and small
companies such as Magic doing a
new breed of utilities. If a small com¬
pany has gcxxi business practices, it
will make it. The opportunity is in be¬
ing able to focus on niche markets.

We use our technical strength to
offset Microsoft’s marketing strength.
Since Microsoft has a massive installed
base of applications, they tried to lock
out other mail vendors by tying their
mail package to their applications. We
responded by writing an INIT called
QM .Menu that allows similar function¬
ality with Microsoft applications and all
others as well.

MW How many people are using your
mail package?

SKEIE We have sold over 150,000
nodes. A lot of those have replaced
other mail systems.

MW Any observations on HyperCard?
SKEIE There is a battle for the inter¬
face standard on the Mac. HyperCard is
a very useful tool, but it’s not replacing
mainline applications as was initially
anticipated. We make XCMDs for the
large and active HyperCard following.
It is useful for user-programmers, but I
think it is failing to achieve expecta¬
tions in the commercial realm.

MW What’s the future of HyperCard?
SKEIE I don’t know. If I were guess¬
ing, I’d say it would become more a
part of the System.

MW What about AppleScripting, which
the company has announced?

SKEIE That’s definitely a step in that di¬
rection. A big issue is that HyperCard
has a different interface from the Mac.
Apple has to be working to tie those
two environments together.

MW What’s the worst bozo Mac
product you can think of?

SKEIE There are two answers: pro¬
grams I don’t like and so I can’t think
of them, and ones I take off my hard
drive and put back on the shelf. One
program accepted by CE Software
people is called CAT. There are a
number of people at CE who organize
their lives on CAT. I don’t — I hate it. It’s
a bozo because I can’t casually learn it.
The worst product I can think of

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was a database, DB Master, from
Stoneware. It was a great product on
the Apple II but Stoneware never
learned to write a prcxluct for the Mac.

MW What’s your favorite CE story?
SKEIE InvisiCalc. Several years ago Don
Brown was walking down a hall by sev¬
eral offices. Someone leaned out and
asked what he was working on. He
pulled a floppy disk out of a nearby
trash can, one with the media ripped
out, held it up, and said, InvisiCalc.

We made a label for the disk, threw
a press conference, had a product an¬
nouncement and press release an¬
nouncing InvisiCalc, which we said
was compatible with everything. At the
party celebrating its announcement,
we arranged a fictitious call from Visi-
Corp lawyers. We had great demos. We
had requests for orders, a great volume
of orders. We were written up in the
Wall Street Journal, which recognized
it as computer humor. We made 10,000
of the disks, had an artist do the man¬
ual, shipped our orders in two weeks,
and it all died. It was the last time we
did software as a Pet Rock, but we had
a ball.

MW There is a rumor that you have
more than a professional interest in
the Mac community.

SKEIE I met my wife at an Apple devel¬
oper conference, over a business
lunch at which her company discussed
producing mail over a gateway from
UNIX. The gateway worked out, and
so did the relationship. This is an exam¬
ple of personal connectivity joining
Silicon Valley with Silicon Prairie.

MW Will you sell out your company to
someone else now that it’s growing?
SKEIE I'm not very motivated by the
prospects. We’ve thought about it in
terms of our opportunities, and we’ve
decided that we like what we do.
We’re more likely to build a company
to be taken over by the employees than
by outsiders, but you can never speak
with certainty about the future.

MW When did you realize that CE Soft¬
ware was going to be a big company?
SKEIE At the introduction of QuicKeys,
when we essentially bet the company
by creating ads and spending a
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tosh technology?

SKEIE 1 buy into what Apple says pub¬
licly. I buy into the vision of comput¬
ing as a ubiquitous part of people’s
lives. Of pointing my watch at a wall
and talking to a computer “agent.”

MW What about the people with 1 28K,
512K, and Mac Plus machines?

SKEIE I’m not sure; it depends on
what they want to do. For kids and
schools they can buy a used Plus or a
512 machine and get exposure to Mac
technology.

MW I’m talking about those people
who want to keep up with the features
of the current operating system, but
have older machines.

SKEIE I’m getting a Portable, Don
Brown wants a Ilci. We have different
needs: I move about, he wants power.
Again, Apple has a range of products.
If you want color or add-ons, there are
different models.

We bet the

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MW How about those users with older
machines who feel disenfranchised?
SKEIE I don’t have much sympathy for
that. Asking Apple to stop develop¬
ment is absurd. If the buyer wants a
different machine, OK, because if
Apple stops development they'll have
to go to another company for a com¬
puter. Apple will simply go out of busi¬
ness; they won’t remain competitive.

MW What do you think of the recent an¬
nouncement by Microsoft and Apple
of a cross-license of basic technology?
SKEIE I don’t know [laughs], I think it’s
a way of being more effective in com¬
puting. Some effects are more political
than functional. But I don’t know
enough about it. It’s entertaining.

Political as it is, though, it’s good
due to competition. Competition
makes better products. Maybe that’s a
naive approach, but it’s reality.

MW Has Apple changed its way of deal¬
ing with its third-party developers?
SKEIE We’re getting a lot more sup¬
port from Apple these days than we
ever did in the past. When a third-party
developer is doing an application im¬
portant to Apple, they get lots of atten¬
tion from Apple. But Apple now has
some 10,000 registered developers, so
there’s no way to give them individual
attention. And the small software de¬
velopers don’t have the resources to
figure out who to talk to, so most go
unnoticed — unless they’re clever with
their products or if they find the right
people at Apple, in which case they get
support. Apple has good intentions.

MW What is going on with online

services?

SKEIE Do you mean why are there so
many emerging now? For a variety of
reasons. People in companies have
started to communicate with each
other on these services. In a sense
they’re tying companies together. A
large part of that is services. I think that
several things are coming together,
making up wide-area E-mail.

There is the additional purpose of
these services as a forum of common
interest, while big differences in geog¬
raphy are disappearing. Online ser¬
vices are just being discovered by a
lot of people. A parallel example is in
(continues)

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TV. The home shopper club provided
by Prcxiigy is growing by leaps and
bounds.

In relation to online services,
videotex services in general have such
rotten services and such convoluted
access methods, and there is little op¬
portunity to make them friendly. A
perfect example is doing an airline
schedule. A front end would probably
make that accessible to a lot more
people, but it would put a lot of travel
agencies out of business.

MW VCTiat area of Macintosh software is
going to show the most growth in the
near future?

SKEIE The applications will focus on
multimedia, and I don’t like that it’s
been overblown, for all its flashiness.
The fact that Apple is focusing on it
means that the area is going to be
flooded with competition, but Mac
software is growing on all fronts.

MW You're one of the remaining found¬
ers of a company from 1984 in Mac
software. Where have the rest gone?
SKEIE No, there are three of us. A lot

are still around, but we just become
visible because we are in an area that
the industry chooses to make visible.
Tom Evslin of Solutions, Inc., Charlie
Jackson of Silicon Beach, and Dave
Winer are all still around. There's Scott
Watson, too. And at different times all
of these people surface. Some have
made lots of money and disappeared
from sight for a while.

MW Nevertheless, the Macintosh soft¬
ware industry is increasingly domi¬
nated by larger companies.

SKEIE Little companies are flocking to
big companies as a matter of self¬
protection. That’s not necessarily the
right solution.

MW What would you change in the Mac
environment if you had the power?
SKEIE I’ll take a little license with that. If
I were in control of Mac technology I
would figure out a way to license it to
everyone. There is that expressiorrthat
Apple is a software company and that
software adds the value to the com¬
puter. Novell is an example of a soft¬
ware company, though some believe

that it is a hardware company selling
networking hardware. They’ve made
great innovations in that way [consid¬
ering themselves a software company] ,
and if Apple began to think that way,
then they could succeed by putting
technology, not boxes, into everyone’s
hands. But I don't know what prob¬
lems are involved in that approach.

MW Apple makes most of its money
from hardware sales.

SKEIE But if they were making money
from, or were paid a royalty on, every¬
thing that a hardware manufacturer
sold that included the technology' that
they owned, that would seem to be
enough.

MW That sounds like the kind of situ¬
ation for which Adobe has been so
regularly criticized.

SKEIE The Adobe issue in part arose
from the fact that they added so much
money to the cost of a printer. And if
they had played the politics differently
it might have been different. □

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care of your bottom line. In fact, you can buy
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by Dan Littman and
Tom Moran

PageMaker Gets
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While PageMaker has re¬
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whistles, from spreadsheets to graph¬
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PageMaker 4.0 at least partially
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capabilities. To avoid the complexity
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The Worldwide Mailbox

Chances are good that half
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by any commercial service. When it Is
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anyone’s E-mail address, anywhere in
the world, as easily as calling local di-
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name is Wilson and who is listed as a
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But the global aspects of X.500
directory services won’t be limited to
electronic mail. X.500 directories will
be able to function like an international
electronic version of the white pages
and yellow pages, so that, for example,
you’ll be able to search for all the
Jeep repair shops between Johannes¬
burg and Cairo, and — using an ISDN-
based phone — display directory' en¬
tries on your phone. You will also be
able to use X.500 to route faxes, and it
will simplify electronic banking.

It may be a few years before all this
comes to pass. Large-scale testing of a
white-pages directory service is now
under way in New York State, but mov¬
ing beyond that to national and inter¬
national listings of services will depend
on each country’s regulatory laws and
the willingness of phone companies
to share their listings. No tariffs have
been set, but don’t count on its being
as inexpensive as a local phone call.
— Dave Kosiur

Putting the Professor
on Disk

a Northern Telecom executive
Richard Oliver was teaching
international marketing to
Vanderbilt University graduate stu¬
dents when he abandoned his lecture

This point-and-click map provides
basic information about countries
for would-be beer exporters.

on political risk analysis. “[Political risk
analysis] was the most boring part of
the global marketing class — and it
should be the most interesting," Oliver
said.

Oliver asked for help from Robert
Duthie, a Nashville-area Authorware
Professional developer, and the pair
packed Oliver’s knowledge of market-
entry' decision factors and political
risk analysis into a 14MB application.
The two-hour course replaces Oliver’s

lecture and leads students through the
development of a global beer-export
strategy' with digitized photographs,
full-color charts, text, and a point-and-
click world map of economic and cul¬
tural information about 21 countries.
The program winds up with a quiz
whose results Oliver plans to incorpo¬
rate in students’ final grades.

Now Oliver’s wife,
an obstetric nurse, is
planning an Author-
ware Professional ap¬
plication to teach preg¬
nant teens about gcxxl
prenatal care.

Authorware Pro¬
fessional, like its pre¬
decessor, Course of
Action, is an applica¬
tion generator. Its
underlying iconic pro¬
gramming environ¬
ment gives you con¬
trol of a vast set of
multimedia tools. You can design
graphics, create animations or import
PICS -format files, and add sounds — it
comes with a Farallon MacRecorder —

Vanderbilt University professor Rich¬
ard Oliver prepares graduate stu¬
dents for their first all-Mac class.

and drive a video disk player. Its text¬
parsing and branching Response Anal¬
ysis capabilities let you manage par¬
tially correct responses. Authorware
Professional provides a wide range of
functions and variables for handling
numbers, dates, text, mouse clicks,
logic, conditionals, and so on; the pro¬
gram also supports XFCNs, XCMDs,
and compiled C or Pascal. Applications
can be cut up and the chunks reused in
various ways, from copying a graphic
into another application to extracting
an intelligent animated gauge and its
link to a customized text-parser.

Authorware Professional sells for
$8000 and is available only from Au¬
thorware. Authorware Academic, a
version that lacks color, sound, and
animation capabilities, is available to
the academic community for $495.
For more information or to contact
Authorware developers, call Author-
ware in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at
612/921-8555— D.L
(continues)

All One World

X.500 can potentially unify E-mail addresses and telephone directories world¬
wide — when politicians agree to let information flow without restrictions.

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Simply type the text into Aldus
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are automatically formatted. Persuasion
2.0 is a complete solution for creating
organization charts, diagrams, and a
variety of graphs, with valuable features

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your presentation is
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much less on overheads. It's important
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Aldus K Persuasion 2.0 is the
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That’s productivity no other method or
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m MACWORLD NEWS

Apple's First Multimedia
Tutorial Teaches Network
Troubleshooting

Apple has developed an in¬
teractive multimedia tutorial
for AppleTalk administration
and troubleshooting, a product that
may be only the company’s first of
many interactive tutorials on a variety
of subjects. Currently in use inside
Apple, the program is now also offered
to Apple’s resellers, and an end-user
version is under consideration.

Called Network Administration
Skills Courseware (NASC), the tutorial
includes overviews and maps of the
course structure. It provides live-ac¬
tion introductions to each topic as well
as in-depth instruction, examples, short
quizzes, gauges of learning, and prob¬
lem-solving exercises. Advanced stu¬
dents take challenge tests to move up
to more difficult topics. The course
resides on both sides of a single laser-
disk, and uses HyperCard 1.2.2 to navi¬
gate the extensive video instruction
and other screens.

The networking instruction is or¬
ganized in modular topics including
Apple LAN Literacy, AppleTalk Network
Products, Apple in SNA Environments,
Apple in the DEC Environment, Sup¬
porting Network Solutions, Selling
Network Solutions, and Designing

Network Solutions. Apple said it is
working on other skills-based, non¬
product-specific training programs.

Requirements for using NASC are a
laserdisk player, HyperCard 1.2.2, and
a Mac II-series system. The tutorial is
available as a course to be taken, but is
not currently available as a product to
be purchased. No price for the course
had been set at press time. For more
information, resellers should contact
Apple regional training managers.

— Tom Moran

Hayes Rolls Out 9600-bps
Modems

Hayes has unveiled its V-se-
ries Ultra Smartmodem 9600,
a 9600-bps (bits per second)
modem with compression algorithms
supporting communications at up to
38.4kbps (kilobits per second). Called
Ultra 96 for short, the modem sup¬
ports full duplex, dial-up communica¬
tion with a wide variety of modems us¬
ing a wide variety of CCITT standards.

The 38.4kbps data-transfer rate is
achieved by the modem’s V.42bis data
compression, the latest CCITT stan¬
dard. To remain compatible with data-
compression standards currently in
wider use, Hayes included Hayes
Adaptive Data Compression and MNP
Class 5 data compression on the Ultra

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Quit

Map

Guided Tour

Introduction

Unit 1: Getting Started

^ Unit 2: Monitoring and

Managing Networks

Unit 3: Modifying a
Network

Unit 4: Soloing Network
Problems

Conclusion

Apple's interactive tutorial uses HyperCard 1 .2.2 and extensive maps to guide
network administrators and others through a number of related topics.

The Hayes V-series Ultra Smart-
modem offers many compression
protocols and algorithms.

96. The modem automatically chcx>ses
the most efficient compression methcxl
that is available to both the sender
and receiver.

Because Hayes intends to distrib¬
ute the same model of the Ultra 96
worldwide, the device also incorpo¬
rates V.32, V.21, V.22, V.22bis, and
V.23, which are error-checking and
data-compression algorithms used by
various existing modems. Hayes also
included 103, 212A, and the Hayes V-
series 9600 ping-pong protocol for
9600 bps and 19.2 kbps data-transfer
rates.

The company also introduced the
Hayes V-series Smartmodem 2400M,
an internal 2400-bps modem for the
Mac II line. The Smartmodem 2400M
complies with CCITT V.42bis, V.22bis,
and V.22 protocols for up to 9600 bps,
and is backwards-compatible with 103
and 212A protocols, supporting data-
transfer rates of 300 bps, 1200 bps, and
2400 bps. It also includes Hayes Adap¬
tive Data Compression and MNP Class
5 data compression.

The V-series Smartmodem 2400
was slated to ship in January at an esti¬
mated retail price of $699. The V-series
Ultra Smartmodem 9600 should begin
shipping in the first quarter of 1990 at
an estimated retail price of $1199. For
more information, call Hayes in Atlan¬
ta, Georgia, at 404/441-1617. — T.M.

NECT Color Printer Does
PostScript

NEC Technologies recently
unveiled its ColorMate PS, a
color PostScript printer that
uses thermal-transfer technology. The
printer uses a four-color ribbon to pro-
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111

PIERRE YVES GOAVtC

Introducing software that thinks . There has never been

personal computer design and drafting software this powerful, this fast or this intuitive. Vellum

thinks. Its radical new technology automatically pinpoints and aligns geometry as you draw.

Built-in intelligence allows you to draw virtually freehand, yet set precise dimensions at any

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time. Finally, the days of complex commands and weeks of training are gone. Vellum has
made industrial-strength design click on the Macintosh. For a ASHLAR

demonstration see your Ashlar dealer or call (408) 746-3900. Software ThatThmks.

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duce up to 16.7 mil¬
lion colors at 300-bv-
300-dpi resolution.

Intended for
high-end graphics,

CAD/CAM, and simi¬
lar applications, the
ColorMate PS in¬
cludes Adobe Post¬
Script and offers a
simulated Pantone
Color Pallette li¬
censed by Pantone
for color matching.

The ColorMate PS
can print on letter or
A-size paper or, with
an optional $995
20MB hard disk, on
legal-size paper. The
printer can also
handle transparencies. A typical 8-by-
9-inch image prints in less than a min¬
ute, while a monochrome image that
size would take less than 20 seconds,
according to NECT.

The ColorMate PS includes 8MB of
RAM, 35 resident fonts, a LocalTalk/
AppleTalk connector, a parallel port, a
SCSI port for the optional hard disk,
and a combination RS-232C/RS-422
serial port. The device accepts three-
color and monochrome ribbons.

The ColorMate PS has a suggest¬
ed retail price of $9995, and was ex¬
pected to begin shipping in December
1989. For more information, call NECT
in Boxborough, Massachusetts, at
508/264-8000.— T.M.

MacProff: Macs Yak with
Mainframes

NECT's ColorMate PS color printer
creates PostScript output on letter-
or legal-size paper.

mainframe’s configuration.

Getting Macs to appear as 3270 ter¬
minals to an IBM mainframe requires
substituting a board or a gateway for a
cluster controller, and the three clus¬
ter controller substitutes available —
Avatar’s MacMainFrame, DCA’s Mac-
Irma, and Tri-Data’s NetWay — come
with application programming inter¬
faces (APIs) to use in Mac applications
once the machines are talking. Mac¬
Proff translates between the APIs and
HypeiTalk, letting HyperCard but¬
tons send PROFS function keys to
the mainframe; or combining pages
of PROFS text, which are limited to 22
lines, into one Mac-like scrolling field

HyperCard has found a new
avocation interpreting the
mumbo jumbo of computers
talking to each other. Two examples:
Oracle for the Mac uses HyperCard to
pass SQL statements, and MitemView
uses HyperCard as a sort of roll-your-
own interface that listens to other
computers and learns their dialect.

Now Mariette Systems’ MacProff is
using HyperCard to plug Macs into
PROFS, the feature-rich but not-so-
friendlv E-mail system that is standard
on IBM mainframes. MacProff dupli¬
cates PROFS’s features in HyperCard
while requiring no changes to the

Lockheed's Andrew Block has been
testing MacProff's ability to let Mac
users into Lockheed's E-mail.

in HyperCard, and then breaking the
scrolling text up into PROFS pages as
it goes back to the mainframe.

At Lockheed's Data Systems Ad¬
ministration in Sunnyvale, California,
Andrew Block is completing a satisfac¬
tory beta-test of MacProff on a Mac IIx
connected via MacMainFrame to an
IBM 3093- He says that worldwide,
Lockheed has stopped buying 3270
terminals and is buying mostly Macs,
but “PROFS is our E-mail standard
worldwide, so every machine will have
to use it.” Perhaps someday mainframe
computers will disappear entirely, and
when that happens, to preserve huge
investments in mainframe software
like PROFS, someone will have to cre¬
ate a virtual mainframe for desktop
computers — in HyperCard, no doubt.

MacProff costs $195. 99 per Mac.
For more information contact Mariette
Systems in San Mateo, California, at
415/344-1519— D.L.

Motorola's 68040 Boasts
19 MIPS

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In late January Motorola in¬
troduced its much-antici¬
pated 68040, a microproces¬
sor likely to be the heart of future
Macintoshes running at 19 MIPS (mil¬
lion instructions per second) and be¬
yond. At press time, the company said
it would begin shipping samples by the
end of 1989, with volume production
expected by the second quarter. Mo¬
torola stated that it would take three to
six months for engineers familiar with
the 68000 family to design and produce
a system based on the new processor.
Design for the main logic board might
take as little as ten working days for a
team of experienced 68030 designers.

Motorola squeezed 1.2 million tran¬
sistors into the 68040, making it the
most densely integrated microproces¬
sor by a narrow margin over Intel’s
top-of-the-line 80486. Like the 486, the
68040 boasts what is called a Harvard
Architecture, which means it has two
separate caches (fast-access storage
areas in RAM), one for data and one for
instructions. Compared to the 68030,
which has one PMMU (paged memory'
management unit) for caching both
data and instructions, the 68040 has
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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

113

Put More

Into These Computers

Than Apple .

They’re today’s most powerful per¬
sonal computers. And to handle
really demanding applications,
you need to put more into them
than 40 or 80 megabytes. Applica-
^ac*ri^or" tions like databases. Multimedia.
Graphics. Publishing. CAD/CAM/CAE. That’s where
the MacinStor™ 195i comes in.

The 195i has been performance matched to
deliver total Macintosh* power to every application.
With 195 megabytes of capacity. With top perfor¬
mance specs— such as 15ms average seek time and
13 Mbits/sec average data transfer rate. With a

clean, 3.5" drive installation that eliminates power
supply and cooling concerns. With comprehensive
software utilities that let you easily manage and
secure your data. And with 50,000 hours MTBF for
long haul reliability.

As with every MacinStor product— internal
or external, hard disk or optical, 40 megabytes
to a gigabyte— the 195i is a high performance solu¬
tion no competitor can match. So call up all of
the Macintosh power at your fingertips. Call up
(408) 879-0300 for MacinStor reseller locations. Or
write Storage Dimensions, 2145 Hamilton Avenue,
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two PMMUs and boasts much larger
caches. The new processor is 100 per¬
cent compatible with all 68000 family
software, Motorola says.

The 19-to-21-MlPS performance
cited by Motorola is for 68040s run¬
ning at the initial clock speed of
25MHz. The company expects to intro¬

expected to range between $700 and
$800 to manufacturers, which typically
translates into about $ 1400 to $2400 in
end-user cost for the processor alone.
However, if the price follows the typi¬
cal curve for top-selling microproces¬
sors, it should drop to half that or less
within one to two years. — T.M.

The 68040 design team: (front row, clockwise from left) Ashok Someshwar,
Steve McMahan, Beverley Vann, Denise Clark, Van Shahan, Bill Ledbetter;
(middle row) Mike Gallup, Renny Eisele, Robin Edenfield, Eric Quintana, Ken
Scheuer, Chris Allen, Jose Guzman, Lai Sood; (back row) Kirk Holden, Ralph
McGarity, Geno Browning, Russ Reininger, Chris DeWitt.

duce faster versions at unspecified
later dates. Current versions of the
68030 run at speeds ranging from
16MHz to 50MHz, with respective
performance ranging from 5 MIPS to
12 MIPS. A 40MHz 68040 would run
at about 29 MIPS, according to Moto¬
rola. However, that big an increase in
clock speed may take several years.

The 68040 also shines in floating¬
point math operations, essential to the
speed of scientific, CAD, and graphics
applications. The 25MHz 68040 pro¬
vides 3.5 MFLOPS (million floating¬
point operations per second), while a
50MHz 68030 operates at only 0.5
MFLOPS. The 68040 is therefore un¬
likely to require an expensive math
coprocessor.

The 68040’s performance will not
come cheap at first. Initial prices are

Full Impact's Second
Round

Version 2.0 of the graphical
spreadsheet Full Impact is in
the hands of beta testers. Its
most notable new features are but¬
tons, which you create by attaching a
macro to just about any selectable ob¬
ject in a worksheet; and full three-
dimensional graphs, which you can
drag on the worksheet to set their
perspective and angle.

One sample worksheet, using
macros behind buttons and other Mac
interface objects, looks like a check¬
book and acts like a Mac application.
A click on an arrow that conceals a
button triggers a macro that advances
through your check register; another

button’s macro pops up a menu for
assigning transactions as deposits,
ATM withdrawals, or other operations.
The 2.0 package will provide a button-
maker utility to help non programmers
get started with buttons.

In version 2.0, you can modify
key equivalents for menu items;
modify number formats as in Excel;
control borders separately for each side
of a cell; align objects by using snap to
grid or an alignment dialog box; search
and replace for text in macros; and lock
macros. There is a new Resource TcxTs
dialog box, similar to Font/DA Mover,
for moving macros, sounds, custom
dialog boxes, and other resources.

Finally, Full Impact 2.0 imports
Excel 1.5 and imports and exports Ex¬
cel 2.2 in native format, including for¬
mulas and macros (though imported
macros may need some tweaking).
Unfortunately, version 2.0still hasonly
eight basic colors, anti Print Preview is
still implemented as a separate utility.

Full Impact 2.0 will probably be
available at the April Macworld Expo.
No pricing informations was available
at press time. For more information,
contact AshtonTate in Torrance, Cali¬
fornia, at 213/329-8000. — D.L.

Kodak Brings Out Portable
Printer

Intended for use with the
Macintosh Portable or with
any Mac, the Kodak Diconix
M150 Plus is a battery-powered print¬
er that weighs 3-1 pounds. The M150
Plus is faster than the existing Ml 50
because it prints bidirectionally. It has
a fast-draft mode at 96 by 96 dpi, an
NLQ mode at 192 by 192 dpi, and a
quality mode that prints at 192 by 192
dpi but makes two passes for better
final output.

The ink-jet printer uses an easy-to-
replace modular print head and ink
supply. The printer includes 13 Adobe
Type Manager outline fonts, prints on
plain paper, and runs on AC power.
When away from AC power, the Ml 50
Plus requires standard C-size NiCad
batteries. It can handle either continu¬
ous form paper or single sheets.

The Ml 50 Plus has a suggested
retail price of $699, and the company
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115

WYSIWYF

(What you see is what you projec

See these colors?

They’re bright. Brilliant. Vibrant.
Because these colors are being proj¬
ected just as they appear on your
computer screen. By the true-color
LCD projection panel from In Focus
Systems. The 480C PC Viewer.™
What's more, its 640 x 480 high-
resolution display works with IBM,
compatibles, and the Macintosh
family.

So call In Focus today. And make
your presentations look truly
brilliant.

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NetWorth's EtherNext for the Mac II family is a NuBus board that connects
to Ethernet over standard twisted-pair lines, reducing cabling costs.

On Location (OL) is a DA/INIT
combination . It enables you to find any
text on a hard disk, anti special transla¬
tors display finds as they would appear
under the application that created
them. Besides the translators, OL dif¬
fers from other search utilities, such as
Gofer and Sonar, in some significant
ways.

Unlike Gofer, OL works by main¬
taining an index of a hard disk, result¬
ing in much faster search speeds, and
it can use file names as a search crite¬
rion. OL creates a single index file for
a whole disk, whereas Sonar puts in¬
dexes in even,- folder and subfolder.
And while the On Location index
takes up only 2 percent of a hard disk,
Sonar indexes can outgrow data files.
You can copy and searche an OL in¬
dex even when the indexed disk is not
attached. On Location’s initial index¬
ing process is much faster than So¬
nar’s — On Technology estimates it
takes a half hour to index an 80MB
hard disk — and OL updates its index
in the background as you create files
or save changes. However, OL offers
none of Gofer’s, and especially So¬
nar’s, sophisticated features, which
range from Booleans and searching by
proximity, to' wild cards, relationals,
and interruptions and subsearches.

Until DataViz, which developed the
filters OL uses, completes a filter for
Excel, OL will not display Excel finds
in the proper format. AppleShare vol-
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that speed, according
to NetWorth.

Although the IEEE
has not completely
finished approving
the proposed twisted¬
pair Ethernet stan¬
dard, called 10 base T,
NetWorth guarantees
that EtherNext will
comply with the fi¬
nal specification. The
company will provide
a free upgrade if
technical changes are
g made in the final
1 lObase T version.

EtherNext’s sug-
i gested list price is
$725. The board was
scheduled to begin shipping near
the end of January. For more infor¬
mation, call NetWorth in Dallas,
Texas, at 214/869-1331 — T.M.

Lost and Found

After the omnibus Jazz wras
wrecked upon the shoals of
the Mac community’s unpre¬
dictable taste, Lotus Development
founder and 1-2-3 architect Mitch
Kapor left to start On Technology and
do the Mac right. Now the company is
about to deliver its first product, a
stripped-down search-and-retrieval
engine with a few new twists.

The Kodak Diconix Ml 50 Plus bidi¬
rectional portable printer is battery
powered and weighs 3.1 pounds.

expected to begin shipping the print¬
er in January. It comes with a printer
cable, an AC adapter, and one print
head; and the Ml 50 Plus requires 1MB
of RAM and System 6.0.2. For more in¬
formation, call Kodak in Rochester,
New York, at 800/255-3434.— T.M.

EtherNext Connects NuBus
to Twisted-Pair Ethernet

NetWorth has introduced its
EtherNext for the Mac II, a
NuBus board that provides
relatively inexpensive access to Eth¬
ernet via standard twisted-pair wares.
Twisted-pair wires are less expensive
and easier to install than other cabling
systems for Ethernet. If extra tele¬
phone wires are already installed in a
building, users can simply change the
standard RJ-11 phone connectors to
RJ-45 jacks and use those wires for
Ethernet.

EtherNext is compatible with the
usual baseband Ethernet and can use
all the same software, the company
says. EtherNext is intended for the
entire Mac II series.

The EtherNext board provides a
data-transfer rate of 10 megabits per
second over the twisted-pair wires. A
bidirectional data buffer gives the
board a theoretical transfer rate across
NuBus of 12MB per second, but NuBus
limits the practical rate to about half

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

117

PIE** WtS GQAVK

Now maclinkplus
Translates Everything
Under The Sun

The award-winning software
package that transfers and trans¬
lates files between Macintosh and
DOS or OS/2 programs now does
the same for Sun worshippers.
And for the NeXT world.

With MacLinkPlus/PC, you can
now send files in either direction
between Macintosh and virtually
any other desktop environment.
Hies arrive in the new environ¬
ment with the correct styles and
formats in place — just as if they
had been created there.

MacLinkPlus/Wang OIS and
MacLinkFlus/Wang VS pro¬
vide the same bi-directional
connectivity between
Macintosh and Wang.

TRANSFERS AND
TRANSLATES

The MacLinkPlus/PC package
arrives with everything you need
— software, manual, a direct
connect cable (a Hayes modem or
compatible also works), and our
full library of over 100 translators*
If you don’t need file transfer
capabilities (maybe your Macs
and PCs already share a network
or server), then simply order
MacLinkPlus/Translators. It’s the
same package without the cable
and communications capabili¬

ties. And, its the ideal software
purchase for anyone with a
Macintosh FDHD SuperDrive
or external drive that reads
DOS disks.

INSTANT PASSPORT
TO EVERYWHERE

Make incompatibility a thing of
the past with the MacLinkPlus
family of Databridge products. For
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* takes advantage of special connections built into
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All product names are trademarks of their
manufacturers.

THE DATABRIDGE SPECIALISTS

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_ g MACWORLD NEWSfi

Lotus founder Mitch Kapor and the
Boston skyline. Kapor's new com¬
pany, On Technology, is ready to
ship Mac products.

umes also present a curious problem:
OL indexes don’t respect Apple¬
Share’s security features, so you
can’t prevent users from finding text
in folders they are not authorized
to read. On Technology plans a fix for
a later version. On Location will list
for $129.95. For more information,
contact On Technology in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, at 617/225-2545. — D.L.

One Word Fills Volumes

There are now at least nine
hefty volumes that supple¬
ment Microsoft Word 4. O s
documentation, each steering the
user through Word’s intricacies with a
different approach. Surprisingly, these
books don’t outshine Microsoft’s
manual, but they provide many extras,
including chapter summaries, cross-
referencing, expanded tutorials, charts
of Word’s icons, explanations of
Word’s special characters, and infor¬
mation for power users.

The books fall into two major cate¬
gories: how-to beginners’ guides em¬
phasizing word processing basics, and
advanced guides covering Word’s fea¬
tures and options exhaustively. While a
few books offer a succinct chapter on
Word 4.0’s new features, none of the
books are geared toward people al¬
ready familiar with version 3 0.

Several books, including Master¬
ing MS Word 4. 0 and Microsoft Word
Made Easy, Version 4, are organized by
feature almost as if you were scrolling
across Word’s menus. Other books,
such as Using Microsoft Word 4 and
Working u ith Word: The Definitive
(Snide, are task oriented, with projects

that teach you everything from outlin¬
ing to indexing. Desktop Publishing
with Microsoft Word has a unique fo¬
cus on Word 4.0’s page-layout and
design capabilities.

My personal favorites are two near¬
ly encyclopedic volumes, Word 4
Companion and Working with Word ,
both of which cover everything. Word
4 Companion also has the cleanest
design, while Working with Word
edges out the others with its clarity
and useful power tips.

Ifyou jumped from Word 3 0 to 4.0
without cracking open the manual,
here’s a word to the wise: there are far
more changes than is apparent at first
glance, and reading one or two of
these books will really pay off.

— Barbara Tannenbaum

TOPS Brings Out InBox 3.0,
Adds Gateways

An easier-to-use version of
InBox that will link via gate¬
ways to other mail systems
was recently introduced by the TOPS
division of Sun Microsystems. Called
InBox 3 0, the software is also compat¬
ible with network operating systems
such as AppleShare, Novell Netware,
3Com’s 3+, LanManager, and TOPS/
Mac. InBox 3.0 runs over AppleTalk
networks without network file-sharing
software.

InBox 3 0 comes with two versions
of the software, one for the Mac and
the other for the PC. Either PCs or
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NINE BOOKS ON MICROSOFT WORD 4.0

Orientation

Beginning

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Advanced •

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Organization

Alphabetical

•

By menu

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By project •

•

Design

Chapter summaries •

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Cross referencing •

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Tutorials

•

Glossary

•

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•

Subjects Covered

AutoMac

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Desktop publishing *

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Mathematical typesetting •

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Microsoft Mail

• •

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PostScript •

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Word Finder

•

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Charts

Keyboard shortcuts

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' By Tim Erickson and William Finzer. Sybex, 1989 ; $24.95. 2 By Paul E Hoffman Addison-Wesley. 1989. $19.95. 1 By
Michael J. Young Sybex. 1989; $22.95. 4 By Pamela S Beason Bantam. 1989; $21 95 s By Paul Hoffman Osborne
McGraw-Hill, 1989; $19.95. 6 By Richard Swadley Sams, 1989; $18.95 ’ By Bryan Pfaffenberger Due. 1989, $21.95. 'By
Gena B Cobb, Allan McGuffey, and Judy Mynhier The Cobb Group, 1989; $22.95. * By Chris Kmata and Gordon McComb
Microsoft Press, 1989; $21.95

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

119

t is the supreme irony
of modern business.
That until now, it has been
impractical— and often
unprofitable— for a busi¬
ness to treat its people’s
time with the same respect
automatically accorded its
money.

What’s more, it’s a
costly shame.

Because for most busi¬
nesses, time is by far their
most valuable resource.

Now you can track time
for all it’s worth.

For today’s business, the answer
is Timeslips* III for the Mac. A com¬
plete, sensible, and surprisingly
powerful software
program that helps
accurately

track,

^ analyze,
, ^ and

^ charge-

out both time
and expenses. And
do so with unprecedented facility
and speed.

Thanks to Timeslips,
many people report up to a
25% increase in accountable
time. Which means an equal
improvement in productivity
and income.

Best of all is
that Timeslips III
for the Mac won
MACUSER Editors
Choice Award
for Best New Professional
Financial Package of 1989-

MacUsei

Timeslips III for the Mac has
a desk accessory stopwatch to
quickly record time and activities
in detail. With reporting that’s
thorough and flexible. In a variety
of formats you determine. And

Get time on your side toda\
Timeslips III for the Mac
is just $299-95 at your
software dealer or from North Edge
Software. We also have complete
literature and a free HyperCard™
demo disk that shows just how effec¬
tive Timeslips III can be for your
bottom line.

with instant graphing for
performance and financial
evaluation. It even produces
custom invoices in the
font of your choice, 1
aging reports, mail¬
ing labels, and billing
worksheets.

Timeslips IE

— CTT"I JL For the Mac

It turns time intojnoney-

But don’t wait. Call today. Because
Timeslips III on your computer is as
good as money in the bank.

H NORTHEDGE

© 1990 North Edge Software Corp , 259 Western Avenue, Essex, MA 01929 Timeslips is a registered trademark of North Edge Software Corp
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Requires System b 0 and Finder 6.1 or later Compatible on a Mai Plus or above with I MByte and either two floppy drives
or a hard drive Multifinder memory needed is 390K Compatible networks include Appleshare, Novell, TOPS, and others

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(508-768-6100 in MA) or FAX 508- 768- •’660.
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MACWORLD NEWS

To make InBox 3.0 easier to use in mixed environments, TOPS programmers
designed the program to have nearly identical interfaces on the Mac and on
IBM PCs and compatibles.

Macs can act as file servers for both
types of machines on the same net¬
work. The interfaces on the two types
of machines are extremely similar,
meaning that users need not learn a
whole new package if they change sys¬
tems or are away from their desks but
want to send a message.

The standard InBox 3.0 package
supports up to 20 users. Users can
store permanent personal address
books; attach multiple files to mes¬
sages; and sort mail by date, subject,
or sender. Users can also store mes¬
sages in ‘‘storage boxes" on their own
hard disks, which tends to ease the
burden on a central server.

TOPS also introduced InBox Plus,
which has the same features as InBox
3.0 but allows for multiple message
centers, gives users access to other
services through gateways, and sup¬
ports up to 100 users per message
center. The gateways are being devel¬
oped by third-party vendors. Differ¬
ent versions of InBox Plus can reside
on a Macintosh, a PC, a VAX, ora UNIX
system.

InBox 3-0 has a suggested retail
price of $329 for 20 users. The sug¬
gested retail price for InBox Plus is
$995 for up to 100 users. Both products
were scheduled to be available in Janu¬
ary. For more information, call TOPS in
Alameda, California, at 415/769-9669.
— T.M.

Observing an Oracle
Database

To its tools for gathering and
manipulating data, Oracle is
adding a tool for displaying
data in a wide variety of live charts and
graphs. Oracle Graphics is designed to
maintain links to an SQL database,
constantly updating w'hat Oracle calls
animated pictures — schematics with
embedded or underlying graphs — as
the conditions recorded in a database
change.

For example, an application devel¬
oped at Oracle’s offices depicts a full-
color illustration of a winery'. Each vat
on the winery floor is monitored with
sensors that feed data about tempera¬
ture and chemical conditions to the
database, and Oracle Graphics uses

dynamic object linking, to make ther¬
mometers and gauges in the illustra¬
tion rise and fall with the wine’s condi¬
tion. Illustrations can be imported as
PICT, EPS, and other formats, or you
can create them with Oracle Graphics’
tool palette.

More examples: Hospital nurses
could fill out patients’ charts on a VAX
terminal, while a doctor at a Macintosh
could click through vital stats for each
patient on an anatomical chart show¬
ing human organs and skeletal, vascu¬
lar, and nervous systems. Or a taxi dis¬
patcher could glance at a digitized map
of a city to find out how many cabs are
in a particular neighborhood and, per¬
haps by their color, how long each cab
will be busy or where it is headed.
Oracle Graphics’ updating is limited to
about once every five seconds, how¬
ever, making it unsuited for certain
real-time applications.

Oracle Graphics provides 51 stan¬
dard graphs in 9 types (column, line,
bar, mixed column and line, pie, dou-
ble-j, high-low, scatter plot, and tables
of columnar data). You can modify'
tick marks, labels, and other elements;
or with dynamic object linking, create
animated pictures that do away with
traditional graphs entirely. Building a
graphing application requires writing
SQL statements, though other Oracle
products being ported to the Mac will
make the process more accessible. In
the meantime, developers can create
flexible templates that give end users
some control over a graph.

Oracle Graphics will run on all Or¬
acle platforms and share data in stan¬
dard SQL fashion. Pricing for the prod¬
uct was undecided at press time. For
more information, contact Oracle in
Belmont, California, at 415/598-8000.
— D.L. □

In this mock-up of a
winery, instruments
pass data about each
process to an SQL
database, which then
sends it to an Oracle
Graphics window for
live graphing.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

121

Do you need

Can’t sleep? Tired of late night TV? Cheer up,
Bunky! There’s nothing more entertaining
than placing an order for Mac peripherals or
software from MacConnection— and our
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our tech specialists are still at your beck and
call (but particularly your call) only between
the daylight hours of 9 AM and 5:30 PM. But
we're ready to take orders anytime from 9 AM
’til 1 AM EST.

The majority of products we carry are covered
by 30-60 day Money Back Guarantees (as
listed here in red). If you’re not happy with
one of those products, call us for an
authorization and return it with allot the
original packaging within the guarantee
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credit card). We reserve the right to limit
quantities on such returns.

Version numbers in our ads are current at
press time. You will receive the latest version
when you order, because that’s all we sell.
Also, all software is not copy-protected, unless
indicated otherwise by (CP). Finally, please
refer to the four-digit number next to the
product when ordering. Thanks!

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On Location ^.0— This DA is the fastest way to
find and view files. Find files by name or
specific words they contain. Then view and
copy text, including fonts and styles. Open,
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★ Aatrix Software ... 30 day MBG

5872 Checkwriter 2.0 . 37.

3976 Aatrix Payroll 3.5 . 109.

3958 Aatrix Payroll PLUS 3.1 . 175.

4021 Aatrix TimeCard 2.0 . 119.

4020 Aatrix TimeMinder 2. 1.2 . 175.

* Abacus Concepts ... 30 day MBG

4482 StatView SE + Graphics 1.03 . 179.

4481 StatView I1 1 .03 . 285.

5840 SuperANOVA 1.1 (for Mac Plus/SE). . 465.

5904 SuperANOVA 1.1 (for Mac II) . 465.

5906 SE + Graphics/SuperANOVA bundle 595.

5907 StatView 11/SuperANOVA bundle . . . 695.

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4024 4th Dimension Runtime 2.0 . 229.

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5749 Cover Letters . 39.

5853 Sales & Marketing . 39.

6363 Computer Science & Engineering. . 39.

6374 Finance & Banking . 39.

6364 Students . 39.

5852 Management Edition . 39.

Ashton-Tate

1324 FullWrite 1.1 . 259.

Blyth Software

5492 Omnis5 . 349.

5855 Omnis 5 (Additional 1 user) . 75.

★ Brainpower ... 60 day MBG

1532 DataScanl.03 . 109.

1535 DesignScope 1 .15 . 119.

1534 MathView Professional 1.1 . 129.

3960 ArchiText 1 .03 . special 159.

6362 Statalyzer 1 .0 . 179.

4066 The Analyzer Bundle (includes DataScan,
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★ Bravo Technologies ... 30 day MBG

1539 MacCalc 1 .2D . 79.

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Smart An I, II, or ///-Bring custom typographic
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program without leaving your application.
SmanAn IV coming soon . each $84.

★ Chang Labs ... 30 day MBG

1611 C A T. 2 0 . special $225

1622 Rags to Riches 3-Pak 3.1 . 289.

★ CheckMark Software ... 60 day MBG

5861 CashLedger 1 3A . 115.

5862 Payroll 4. 02 . 175.

5863 MultiLedger 1.3 . 235.

Claris

1129 MacWrite I1 1 .0 . 169.

4196 FileMaker I1 1.1 V2 . 219.

5910 FileMaker II & MacWrite II Bundle . 295
1125 MacProject II 2.0 . 369.

Computer Associates/Bedford

4977 Simply Accounting 1.04 . 225.

★ DacEasy Software ... 60 day MBG

4502 DacEasy Light 1.0 . 42.

★ Deneba Software ... 30 day MBG

4700 BigThesaurus 1 .0 . 54

1767 Comment 2.0 . 54.

1768 Coach Professional 3.1 . 125.

Abacus Concepts ... 30 day MBG

SuperANOVA 1. /-Analyzes virtually any
general linear model used by researchers and
engineers who perform ANOVA, ANCOVA,
MANOVA, MANCOVA, and regression on
their data. Revolutionary ease of use . . $465.

★ Digital, Etc. ... 30 day MBG

6378 Business Sense 1 .2 . 269.

★ Dow Jones ... 30 day MBG

1786 Market Manager PLUS 2.0 . 189.

6383 Market Analyzer . 189.

★ Electronic Arts ... 30 day MBG

1543 Thunder I1 1.01 (Batteries Included) 49.

★ Fox Software ... 30 day MBG

5572 FoxBASE ll/Mac 2.0 . 295.

4580 FoxBASE + /Mac Runtime 2.0 .... 179

4844 FoxBASE + /Multi-User 2.0 . 399.

5579 FoxBASE +/Multi-User Runtime. . . 295.

Individual Software

4720 101 Macros for Excel 1 .5 . 35.

Informix

4955 Wmgz 1.1 . 249.

★ Intuit ... 30 day MBG

2425 Quicken 1.5 . 36.

★ Layered ... 30 day MBG

5207 atOnce! 1.0 . 285.

2609 Insight Expert A/P 2. 02 . 399.

2610 Insight Expert A/R 2. 2 . 399.

2611 Insight Expert G/L 2.1 . 399.

2612 Insight Expert Inventory 1.01 . 399.

5643 Insight Expert Payroll 1.0 . 399.

2614 Insight Expert Time Billing 2.01 .... 399.

2608 FrontDesk Multi-User (single node). 59
6372 FrontDesk Multi-User (1-3 nodes) . . 134.

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Freesoft ... 60dayMBG

White Knight ^-(Formerly Red Ryder) supports
XMODEM. YMODEM7 ZMODEM, Kermit,
and CompuServe Error Correcting protocols.
Includes Okyto 1.0, a Mac-to-Mac file transfer
program, and a free subscription to GEnie . $89.

6373 FrontDesk Multi-User (1- 10 nodes) . 299.

★ Lundeen & Assoc. ... 60dayMBG

2684 WorksPlus Spell 2.0A . 56.

★ MECA ... 60 day MBG

2796 Managing Your Money 3.0 . 124.

★ Microlytics ... 60 day MBG

2733 Word Finder 2.0 . 34.

4870 Electronic WordFinder 220 . 69.

★ Microsoft ... 30 day MBG

2885 Write 1.0 . 79.

2866 File2.0A . 125.

2884 Works 2.0 . 185.

2865 Excel 2.2 . 249.

4969 Word 4.0 . 249.

5454 The Microsoft Office . 529.

6382 The Microsoft Office (CD-ROM). . . 599.

★ Monogram ... 30 day MBG

2780 Dollars & Sense 5.0 . 81.

★ New Horizons ... 30 day MBG

6262 WordMaker 1.0.1 . 65.

★ Niles & Associates ... 30 day MBG

5048 EndLink 1.0 . 58.

4602 EndNote 1.2.1 . 75.

5101 Grant Manager 1 .75 . 249.

★ Nolo Press ... 60 day MBG

4228 For the Record 1.03 . 28.

2981 WillMaker3.0 . 32.

★ Odesta ... 30 day MBG

3014 GeoQuery 1 .01 . 198.

4211 DataDesk Professional 2.0 . 285.

5621 Double Helix III 3.0 . 339.

Paracomp

4664 Milo 1.0 . 158.

★ Paragon Concepts ... 30 day MBG

5683 Nisus 2.03 . 249

★ Preferred Publishers ... 30 day MBG

4781 Vantage 1.1 . 52.

4780 DAtabase 1 .12 . 69

★ ProVUE ... 60 day MBG

4582 Panorama 1.5 . 249.

★ Reference Software ... 30 day MBG

6268 Grammatik Mac 1 .0 . $52.

Satori

3320 BulkMailer3.25 . 75.

3321 BulkMailer Plus 3.25 . 189.

3978 Components G/L . 369.

6109 Components A/R . 369.

★ Sensible Software ... 30 day MBG

3375 Sensible Grammar 1 .5.5 . 53.

4692 Bookends 1.1.7 . 53.

★ Softstream Int’l., Inc. ... 60 day MBG

5439 Endeavour Planner 1.0 . 95.

SoftView

3470 MacInTax 1989 . 65.

6381 Taxview Professional . 209.

3469 California State Supplement . 56.

3472 New York State Supplement . 56.

Additional State Supplements (CT, IL,

MA, NJ, OH, VA) available soon . ea. 56.

★ Survivor Software ... 30 day MBG

6097 Invoiclt . 50.

3289 MacMoney3.5 . 60.

★ Symantec ... 30 day MBG

3422 More II 2.01 . 245.

★ Symmetry ... 30 day MBG

4504 Acta Advantage 1.0 . 65.

★ Synergy ... 30 day MBG

3129 KaleidaGraph 2.0 . 145.

★ Timeslips ... 30 day MBG
(formerly North Edge Software)

2986 Timeslips III 1.1 . 169.

★ T/Maker ... 30 day MBG

3639 WriteNow 2.0 . 119.

★ WordPerfect ... 60 day MBG

3800 WordPerfect Mac 1 .0.3 . 185.

GRAPHICS & DESIGN

Adobe Systems

5750 Adobe Type Manager . $56

6053 Adobe Plus Pack . 109.

6156 Adobe ATM/Plus Pack Bundle . . 162

1137 Adobe Illustrator ‘88 1 .9 . 279.

1138 The Collector’s Edition . 79.

4816 The Collector’s Edition II . 129

5606 True Form FillOut 2.0 . 169.

5605 True Form 2.0 . 225.

Reference Software ... 30 day MBG

Grammatik Mac 1.0- New! Powerful writing
aid. Checks for grammar, style, usage,
punctuation and spelling errors in one pass.
Detects over 10,000 writing errors and gives
you instant, complete advice . $52.

★Working Software ... 30 day MBG

3790 Lookup 1.0C . 30.

3788 Findswell 2.0 . 36.

3792 Spellswell 2.0G . 45.

4699 QuickLetter 1.01 . 73.

5001 StreamLine 1.0 . 229.

1142 Newsletters/Publishing Pack 1 ... 229.

4565 Forms and Schedules Pack 2 ... . 279.

4566 Presentations Pack 3 . 279.

MacConnection carries the entire

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DeltaGraph f.O-Powerful, easy to use, 2-D and
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Adobe Type Library.

Volumes 1-122 . call

★ Aldus ... 30 day MBG

4751 Persuasion 2.0 . 339.

1330 Freehand 2.02 . 339.

1331 PageMaker 3.02 . 385.

6149 PageMaker Color Extension . 135.

Altsys

1194 FONTastic Plus 2.02 . 51.

5425 Art Importer 2.0 . 89

1195 Fontographer 3.0 . 249.

★ Antic Software ... 30 day MBG

5756 FlexForm Business Templates I . . . . 49.
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MacFontware Typeface Packages

5970 9 Futura Medium . 89.

5976 11 Letter Gothic (12 Pitch) . 89.

5974 15 ITC Garamond . 89.

5975 16 ITC Souvenir . 89.

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5973 19 ITC Galliard . 89

5971 20 Headlines 1 . 89.

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5972 21 Headlines 2 . 89.

5968 23 Baskerville . 89.

5977 27 News Gothic . 89.

Bright Star Technology

3962 HyperAnimator 1.5 . 98.

6093 Interface 1.0 . 249.

Broderbund Software

1427 Print Shop 1.3 . 35.

6281 TypeStyler 1 .0 . 119.

★ Casady & Greene ... 60dayMBG

MacConnection carries the entire line
of Casady & Greene fonts.

Volumes 1-22 . each 46.

4838 Quill Pack (Vol. 8&20) . 89.

4836 Headline Pack (Vol. 10-12) . 125.

4837 Modern Pack (Vol. 7, 14-18) . 159.

4834 Distinctive Pack (Vol. 8. 19-22). . . . 159.

4833 Classic Pack (Vol. 3-6, & 13) . 159.

1575 Fluent Fonts 2.0 . 27.

Claris

1123 MacPaint II 2.0 . 95.

4815 Smart Form Designer 1.01V . 295.

1117 MacDraw I1 1.1 . 295.

5911 MacDraw II & MacWrite II Bundle . 369.

4814 Claris CAD 1.0 . 595.

Computer Associates/Cricket

1668 Cricket Graph 1 .3 . 115.

1670 Cricket Presents 2.0 . 285.

★ DeltaPoint ... 60dayMBG

6095 DeltaGraph 1 .0 . 99.

★ Deneba Software ... 30dayMBG

6365 UltraPaint 1 .5 . 125.

1769 Canvas 2.1 . 189.

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4088 MacGallery (MacPaint format) . 27.

4840 Captures: Business 1 . 69.

4841 Cliptures: Business 2 . 69.

Dubl-Click Software

World-Class Fonts! . each 42.

World-Class LaserType Vol. 1 -9 each 42.
MacConnection carries the entire line
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Volumes 1 & 2 thru 17 & 18 . . each 42.

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4315 Studio/8 1.0 . 296.

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6098 TypeAlignfor ATM 1.0 . 60.

5168 SmartArtll.O . $84.

5602 Smart Art I1 1 .0 . 84.

5603 Smart Art III 1 .0 . 84.

★ Enabling Technologies ... 30 day MBG

1871 Pro3D 1 .2 . 279.

Clip 3D (8 clip-art pkgs.) .... each 57.

Enzan-Hoshigumi USA

1879 MacCalligraphy 2.0 . 99.

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2199 MacRecorder 2.0 . 162.

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2384 Comic Strip Factory 1.6 . 38.

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5428 NuPaint 1.0.4 . 79.

★ Graphsoft ... 30 day MBG

4993 MiniCad+ 2.0V4 . 519.

★ Great Wave ... 30 day MBG

2272 Crystal Paint 1 .0 . special 25.

Ite

. CUTTHKEOCS

Cutting Edge ... 30 day MBG

Cutting Edge Hard Drives are fast and reliable
with access times as low as 23 milliseconds
and a mean time between failure rating of up
to 100,000 hours. An outstanding combination

of quality and low price . see line listing.

Innovative Data Design

2417 MacDraft 1 .2B . 143.

4707 Dreams 1.0 . 265.

Letraset

2621 Ready, Set, Go! 4.5 . 275.

2619 Image Studio 1 .5 . 275.

4709 LetraStudio 1 .0 . 275.

6300 Font Studio . 469.

6302 Design Studio . 629.

6301 Color Studio . 1589.

★ Linguist’s Software ... 60 day MBG

Over 100 language fonts . call

2630 Greek . 59.

2636 Kanji 6.0 . 59.

2625 Chinese Cantonese . 79.

2645 Chinese Mandarin . 79.

5759 LaserArabic & Farsi . 59.

2641 LaserHebrew . 79.

2640 LaserGreek . 79.

2642 LaserKorean . 89.

★ MacroMind ... 30 day MBG

4953 VideoWorks II 2.0 . 175.

4952 VideoWorks II HyperCard Driver 1 .2 60.

4954 VideoWorks II Accel. 1.1 ... special 99.

6159 MacroMind Accelerator . 129.

5087 MacroMind Director 1.01 . 445.

★ MicroMaps ... 30 day MBG

5516 MacAtlas (Paint version) . $45.

5514 MacAtlas (EPSF version) . 105.

5513 MacAtlas (Professional version) .. . 105.

5515 MacAtlas Presentation Pack . 105.

★ Microsoft ... 30 day MBG

2878 PowerPoint 2.01 . 249.

Mindscape

5768 ZING 1.0 . 125.

Paracomp

4597 Swivel 3D 1.1 . 299.

5028 ModelShop 1.0 . 375.

★ Preferred Publishers ... 30 day MBG

5751 Exposure 1.1 . 52.

Quark

4621 QuarkStyle 1 .0 . 169.

3230 QuarkXPress 2. 12 . 449.

★ Silicon Beach ... 60 day MBG

3504 Silicon Press 1.1 . 52.

3506 SuperPaint 2.0 . 125.

3980 Digital Darkroom 1.1 . 249.

3507 Super3D 2.0 . 315.

★ Softstream Int’l., Inc. ... 60 day MBG

4996 UltraSpec 1 .0 . 95.

★ Solutions Int’l. ... 60 day MBG

3446 The Curator 1 .05 . 72.

★ Springboard ... 30 day MBG

3530 Certificate Maker 2.0. .' . 22.

3532 Certificate Library . 18.

4497 Top Honors 1.01 . 59.

4500 Springboard Publisher II . 109.

★ SuperMac Software ... 60 day MBG

3380 PixelPaint2.0 . 225.

5625 PixelPaint Professional 1.0 . 389

★ Timeworks ... 30 day MBG

5908 Publish-it! 1.0 . 225.

★ T/Maker ... 30 day MBG

3632 ClickArt Business Images . 32.

3633 ClickArt Christian Images . 39.

3635 EPS Illustrations . 82.

5167 EPS Business Art . 82.

3G Graphics

3942 Images with Impact: Graphics 1 ... 51.

4583 Images with Impact: Business 1 . . 65.

★ Wayzata Tech. ... 60 day MBG

6370 Quick Art (CD-ROM) . 175.

★ Zedcor ... 60 day MBG

3986 DeskPaint & DeskDraw 2.01 . 64.

Layered ... 30 day MBG

atOnce! 1.0- Easy to learn, high speed small
business accounting package. All 4 modules
(GL, AR, AP, and Payroll) can be open simulta¬
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import and export features . $285.

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★ Antic Software ... 30 day MBG

6100 HOT-SPOT . $42.

Apple Computer

1118 HyperCard 1 .2.2 . 42.

Bantam Publishing

1403 Complete HyperCard Handbook . . 22.

★ Beacon Technology ... 30 day MBG

4967 HyperBible fK/ng James) 1.0 .... 145.

4968 HyperBible (New International) 1 .0 175.

Borland International

1511 Turbo Pascal 1 .1 . 68.

1512 Turbo Pascal Tutor 1.0 . 46.

Broderbund Software

5237 Whole Earth Catalog (CD-ROM) ... 89.

★ Digitalk ... 60 day MBG

5166 SmallTalk/V Mac 1.1 . 125.

★ DreamMaker ... 30 day MBG

4115 MacGallery (HyperCard format) .. . 27.

★ Emerald City ... 30 day MBG

5728 LaserTalk 1 .0 . 149.

Hyperpress Publishing

5435 HyperOnel.O . 29.

4233 Icon Factory 1.0 . 29.

5089 Script Library 1.0 . 29.

4265 Script Expertl .0 . 45.

5434 Intelligent Developer 1 .0 . 219.

JAM Software ... 30 day MBG

Smart Alarms w/Singk User Affotntment Diary-
Desk accessory system organizes your time? sets
personalized on-screen reminders, & leaves
messages on other network users7 diaries . . $49.
Multi-User Affotntment Dianes . . see line listing.

ICOM Simulations

5681 HyperTMON 1 .0 . 59.

4085 TMON 2.8.2 . 89.

Individual Software

4719 101 Scripts & Buttons HyperCard 1 .0. 36.
★ Manx Software ... 60 day MBG

4068 Aztec C3.6B . 63.

4317 Aztec SDB . 63.

4316 Aztec C UniTools . 63.

4069 Aztec MPWC3.6B . 95.

4075 Aztec C + SDB 3.6B . 95.

BrainPower ... 60 day MBG
Statalyzer f O-From the original publishers of
StatView comes the next generation of statis¬
tical software. Statalyzer combines powerful

statistics such as survival curves with a
unique interface .

★ MicroMaps ... 30 day MBG

5512 HyperAtlas . 59.

5518 QuickMap . 59.

★ Microsoft ... 30 day MBG

4471 QuickBasic 1.0 . 65.

★ Millenium Software ... 30 day MBG

6105 HyperX 3.0 . 65.

Olduvai

5446 PLUS 1.11 . 109.

★ Silicon Beach ... 60 day MBG

5100 SuperCard 1.0 . 125.

★ SmethersBarnes ... 30 day MBG

1478 Prototyper2.1 . 185.

★ Softstream Int’l., Inc. ... 60 day MBG

5440 HyperHIT 1.0 . 125.

★ Somak Software ... 30 day MBG

5897 ScriptEdit 1.1 . 49.

★ Springboard ... 30 day MBG

4495 Family Matters 1.0 . 28.

★ Symantec ... 30 day MBG

4644 Just Enough Pascal 1.0 . 47.

3421 THINK Pascal 2.0 . 89.

3420 THINK C 4.0 . 149.

★Symmetry ... 30 day MBG
3318 HyperDA 1 .2 . 49.

★ Timeworks ... 30 day MBG

5905 The Hyperworks Organizer 1.0.... 57.

★TML Systems ... 30 day MBG

3548 TML Source Code Library I1 1.1 ... 39.

3549 TML Pascal II 3.0 (w/MPW 3.0) ... 109.

Trendware

5203 Stack Cleaner . 29.

5202 HyperTools#1 1.02 . 52.

5199 HyperTools #2 1 .04 . 52.

5609 XCAL 1.0 . 77.

True BASIC, Inc.

3587 True BASIC 2.02 . 55.

8 Toolkits & Library . call

★ Zedcor ... 60 day MBG

3985 ZBASIC 5.0 . 89.

UTILITIES

★ Abbott Systems ... 30 day MBG

5236 CanOpenerl.1 . $65

★ Affinity Microsystems ... 60 day MBG

1014 Affinifile 1.1 . 45.

1016 Tempo I1 1.02 . 75.

★ Aladdin Systems ... 30 day MBG

6169 Shortcut 1.0.1 . 46.

★ American Power ... 30 day MBG

6102 PowerChute . 65.

★ Berkeley Systems ... 30 day MBG

5737 After Dark 1.1 . 25.

1541 Stepping Out II 2.01 . 50.

Borland

1510 Sidekick 2.0 . 68.

★ Bravo ... 30 day MBG

5404 SPAMM1.1 . 48.

★ Casady & Greene ... 60 day MBG

2269 QuickDEX 1 ,4A . 31.

★ CE Software ... 60 day MBG

4689 MockPackage Plus Utilities 4.4 ... . 32.

1727 CalendarMaker3.0 . 32.

6278 DiskTop 4.0 . 64.

1729 QuicKeys 1 .2 . 64.

★ Central Point ... 30 day MBG

5040 Copy II Mac 7.2 . 24.

5041 PC Tools Deluxe Mac 1 .1 . 45.

★Connectix ... 30 day MBG

6123 Virtual 2.0 (for SE/30, Ilex, llx, & llci) 115.
6122 Virtual 2.0 (for Mac II, incl. PMMU) . 188.

★ Dantz Development ... 30 day MBG

5255 Retrospect 1.1 . 152.

Dubl-Click Software

1824 Calculator Construction Set 2.01 .. . 45.

★ Electronic Arts ... 30 day MBG

1843 Disk Tools Plus 1 .01 (Batteries Incl.). 31 .

★ Fifth Generation ... 60 day MBG

4287 PYRO! 3.3 (screensaver) . 14.

A Lasting Impression

RksumExpert-Ftofessional r£sum£ composition.

40 + fully-formatted MS Word r£sum£ templates.
Highlight the text and substitute your own
information. Rated 4 Mice by Mac User.

See line listing for other editions . $39.

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Our money-back deals

Software Ventures ... 30dayMBG

MicroPhone II 3.0-New version of top-selling
telecom software. Build graphic front-ends to
remote services & corporate mainframes. Sup¬
ports XCMDs & XECNs, ZMODEM, icons,
European languages, color & sound . $219.

3954

PowerStation 2.5 .

. 34.

3955

Suitcase I1 1 .2.3 .

. 44.

5178

FastBack II 2.0 .

107.

5725

DiskLock 1.0 .

107.

★ HJC Software ... 30 day MBG

4803

Vi rex .

. 52.

5885

V\rex(10 Pack) .

ICOM Simulations

329.

4084

On Cue 1.3 .

. 35.

3379

Network DiskFit 1.5 . $225.

5755

Where/Europe Carmen Sandiego7fCPJ $29

3381

Sentinel 2.0 .

87.

5233

Where/USA Carmen Sandiego? (CP)

★ Symantec ... 30 day MBG

1423

Jam Session 1 . 1 (CP) .

5176

Symantec Anti-virus for Mac 1.1 . . .

63.

4966

SimCity 1 . 1 (CP) .

5724

Symantec Utilities II for Mac .

94.

6384

PlayMaker Football (CP) .

★ Williams & Macias ... 30 day MBG

5871

SimCity Supreme (CP) .

3779

DiskFinder .

27.

1422

Geometry 1 .2 (CP) .

58.

3783

myDiskLabeler w/Color 2.9. 11 .

28.

4067

Calculus 1 .2 (CP) .

58.

3784

myDiskLabeler w/LaserWriter 2.9. 1 LI .

33.

1426

Physics 1 .2 (CP) .

58.

3780

ImageWriter II Label Pack (Qty. 216)

15.

★ Bull City Software ... 30 day MBG

3781

LaserWriter Label Pack (Qty. 216) . .

18.

5841

Moriarty's Revenge (CP) .

32.

4976

Sticky Business 1.0.7 .

89.

Bullseye

★ XTree ... 30 day MBG

1545

Fokker Triplane 2.02 (CP) .

5177

XTreeMac 1 .02 .

52.

1544

Ferrari Grand Prix (CP) .

32.

4074

P51 Mustang Flight Simulator (CP)

32.

LEARN & PLAY

Carina Software

5726

Voyager 1.2 .

89.

Access Software

★Casady & Greene ... 60 day MBG

4655

World Class Leader Board Golf. . . .

26.

2268

Crystal Quest 2. 2T .

25.

Accolade

4119

Crystal Quest w/Critter Editor 2.2T.

. 41.

1184

Hardball (CP) .

29.

Coda Music Systems

4484

Mean 18 (CP) .

29.

4367

MacDrums 1 .01 (CP) .

. 31.

4485

4th and Inches (CP) .

29.

4483

Perceive 1.0 .

49.

5854

MusicProse 1.0 .

169.

★ Insight Development ... 30dayMBG

6173 MacEnvelope4.1 . 65.

6171 MacPrintl.2 . 95.

★ JAM Software ... 30 day MBG

6089 Smart Alarms Single User . 49.

6088 Smart Alarms 1-4 Users . 99.

6087 Smart Alarms 5-8 Users . 149.

6086 Smart Alarms 9-15 Users . 199.

6085 Smart Alarms 16-25 Users . 299.

★ Kent Marsh Ltd. ... 30 day MBG

5457 QuickLock 1.0 . 56.

2591 The NightWatch 1.03 . 86.

6134 MacSafe II . 107.

★ Kiwi Software ... 60 day MBG

Penton Overseas ... 30 day MBG

VocabuLeam/ce-Dymmic foreign language
programs. Interactive HyperCard Stack available
in five languages and two levels. Two 90 min.
audio cassettes, word list and HyperCard 1.2.
Perfect bilingual aid . see line listing.

6267 Kiwi Envelopes! 3.0 .

. 35.

Activision

★ Loop Software ... 30 day MBG

4475

Quarterstaff (CP) .

29.

5442 PictureBook 3.2 .

. 39.

4486

Manhole .

29.

MEDIAGENIC

5127

Manhole (CD-ROM) .

35.

4591 Open It! 1.0 .

. 49.

5517

Cosmic Osmo .

42.

★ Microlytics ... 60 day MBG

★ Ars Nova ... 30 day MBG

2732 GOfer 2.0 .

. 45.

1215

Practica Musica 2.2 .

72.

★ Microseeds Pub. ... 60 day MBG

★ Bogas Productions ... 60 day MBG

4848 INITPicker 1.0 .

. 27.

1461

Studio Session 1.2SE .

45.

4210 Screen Gems 1 .0 .

. 39.

4255

Super Studio Session 2.0 .

65.

2913 Redux 1 .5 .

. 51.

1459

Heavy Metal Rock .

13.

Olduvai

1460

String Quartet .

13.

4503 MultiClip 1.01 .

. 50.

1458

Country Disk .

13.

★ ON Technology ... 1 year MBG

4832

Sound Effects .

13.

6385 On Location 1.0 .

. 75.

5719

Brass Disk .

13.

★ Software Innovations ... 30 day MBG

Bright Star Technology

5869 HandOff 1.1 .

. 32.

3961

Talking Tiles 1.0 .

27.

★ Solutions Int’l. ... 60 day MBG

1402

Alphabet Blocks 1.0 .

30.

3448 SmartScrap& The Clipper 2.1 ...

. 45.

Broderbund Software

3449 SuperGlue II 2.0 .

. 61.

4314

Type! 1.0 .

18.

★ SuperMac Software ... 60 day MBG

5886

Star Wars (CP) .

24.

3383 SuperSpool 5.0 .

. 58.

4099

Shufflepuck Cafe (CP) .

24.

3382 SuperLaserSpool 2.0 .

. 87.

1421

Ancient Art of War (CP) .

26.

3378 SuperLaserSpool 5-Pack 2.0 ....

289.

4540

Ancient Art of War at Sea (CP) .

26.

3377 DiskFit 1.5 .

. 58.

4229

Where/World Carmen Sandiego? (CP)

27.

5604 Finale 2.0 . 589.

Davidson & Associates

1734 Math Blaster! 1 .0 (CP) . 26.

6128 Math Blaster Mystery (CP) . 26.

4978 Speed Reader I1 1 .0 (CP) . 26.

★ Electronic Arts ... 30 day MBG

1850 Reach for the Stars . 26.

6297 Halls of Montezuma . 27.

5554 Bard's Tale . 32.

4064 Chuck Yeager Flight Simulator .... 32.

4588 Life & Death (CP) . 32.

4945 The Hunt for Red October . 32.

4981 Starfleet 1 . 36.

1846 Deluxe Music Construction Set 2.5 . 84.

★ First Byte ... 30 day MBG

5294 Puzzle Storybook 1 .0 (ages 3-8) ... 27.

5293 Dinosaur Discovery Kit 1 .0 (ages 3-8) 27.

3941 SmoothTalker 2.1 . 32.

3936 KidTalk 2.0 (ages 5-15) . 32.

3935 Speller Bee 2.0 (ages 5- 12) . 32.

★ Great Wave ... 30 day MBG

2277 TimeMasters 1 .0 (ages 4 +) . 22.

2276 KidsTime 1 .2 (ages 3-8) . 26.

5642 KidsMath 1 .1 (ages 3-8) . 26.

Timeworks ... 30 day MBG

Pubhsh-it! f.O-This complete desktop publish¬
ing program includes advanced page layout;
drawing, painting and editing capabilities;
and a fully integrated word processor . . $225.

are completely for real.

Broderbund Software

TypeSiyler f.C-Create dramatic designs once
possible only with custom illustrations and
expensive typesetting facilities. An amazing
range of styling effects. Import and export

PICT, Paint and EPS file formats . $ 119.

4334 NumberMaze 1.1 (ages 5- 12) . 26.

2270 American Discovery 2.3 (ages 9 + ) 26.

2273 ConcertWare+ 4.0 . 38.

2271 ConcertWare+ MIDI 5.0 . 99.

Infocom

5814 Journey . 29.

5816 Shogun . 35.

* Inline Design ... 30dayMBG

5870 Bomber (includes headphones) ... 26.

★ Learning Company ... 30dayMBG

2670 Reader Rabbit 2.1 (CP) (ages 4- 7). . 31.
5453 Talking Math Rabbit 1 .0 ( ages 4-7) . 31 .

MicroProse

4697 Pirates! (CP) . 35.

★ Microsoft ... 30dayMBG

2868 Flight Simulator (CP) . 33.

Miles Computing

5253 The Puzzle Gallery . 27.

2765 Fool’s Errand . 32.

2767 Harrier Strike Mission II (CP) . 32.

Mindscape

4083 Balance of Power 1990 (CP) . 29.

3987 Colony (CP) . 29.

4596 Deja Vu II (CP) . 29.

2743 Crossword Magic (CP) . 29.

2749 Shadowgate (CP) . 29.

5252 Gauntlet (CP) . 29.

2751 Uninvited (CP) . 29.

★ Paragon Concepts ... 30dayMBG

6094 MacTag 2.04 . 42.

★ Penton Overseas ... 30dayMBG

5864 VocabuLearn/ce French (level 1) ... . 30.

5887 VocabuLearn/ce French (level 2) .... 30.

5865 VocabuLearn/ce Italian (level 1) . 30.

5889 VocabuLearn/ce Italian (level 2) . 30.

5867 VocabuLearn/ce Spanish (levell) ... 30.

5891 VocabuLearn/ce Spanish (level 2) ... 30.

5868 VocabuLearn/ce German (level 1) .. . 30.

5888 VocabuLearn/ce German (level 2) .. . 30.

5866 VocabuLearn/ce Japanese (level 1) . . 36.

5890 VocabuLearn/ce Japanese (level 2) . $36.

★ Personal Training Sys. ... 60 day MBG

Personal Training for Excel

5573 XL1 Beginning Spreadsheets . 39.

5574 XL2 Intermediate Spreadsheets ... 39.

5575 XL3 Advanced Spreadsheets . 39.

5576 XL4 Creating Business Graphics. . . 39.

6021 XL5 Building Databases . 39.

6020 XL6 Beginning Macros . 39.

6367 XL7 Advanced Macros . 39.

Personal Training for Macintosh

5263 B1 The Basics (for 2 floppy drives). . 39.

5264 B2 The Basics (for Plus or SE w/HD) 39.

5265 B3 The Basics (for Mac II w/HD) ... 39.

5266 B4 Beyond the Basics . 39.

Personal Training for Word

4947 W1 Beginning Level . 39.

4854 W2 Intermediate Level . 39.

5098 W3 Advanced Level . 39.

5418 W4 Additional Features . 39.

Personal Training for Persuasion

5269 LP1 Beginning Persuasion . 39.

5270 LP2 Intermediate Persuasion . 39.

5271 LP3 Creating AutoTemplates . 39.

5272 LP4 Creating Artwork . 39.

Personal Training for HyperCard

5194 HI Using HyperCard . 39.

5195 H2 Creating Cards & Stacks . 39.

5267 H3 Basic Scripting . 39.

5268 H4 Advanced Scripting . 39.

Personal Training for PageMaker

4852 PI Beginning PageMaker . 39.

4853 P2 Intermediate PageMaker . 39.

5096 P3 Tips & Techniques . 39.

5097 P4 Advanced Features . 39.

Personal Training for Works

5196 Ml Database & Form Letters . 39.

5197 M2 Advanced Databases . 39.

5273 M3 Spreadsheets . 39.

5274 M4 Word Processing . 39.

Timeslips ... 30 day MBG

Timesltps III 1. /-This highly-efficient time and
billing program helps you turn time into money
by making it easy to keep track of every hour.
Version 2.0 with new features due out soon-
free upgrade included . $ 169.

Personal Training for Illustrator 88

5259 A1 Beginning Illustrator . $39.

5260 A2 Intermediate Illustrator . 39

5261 A3 Creating Special Effects . 39

5262 A4 Precision Drawing Techniques . 39
Personal Training for FileMaker

5278 FM1 Beginning FileMaker . 39

5279 FM2 Intermediate FileMaker . 39

5280 FM3 Advanced FileMaker . 39

5281 FM4 Tips & Techniques . 39.

Personal Training for FreeHand

6353 FH1 Beginning Level . 39.

Farallon Computing ... 30 day MBG

Timbuktu/Remote Access rack- One-stop solution for
remote computing needs. Includes Timbuktu/
Remote screen sharing and file transfer software,
Remote/V.32 modem, and Remote/WakeUp
cable and Auto ShutDown software _ $859.

Premier Technology

5773 Strategic Conquest Plus 2.0 . 34.

5774 NetTrek-The Real Version . 34.

Sierra On-Line

4161 Mother Goose (CP) . 19.

3397 Leisure Suit Larry (CP) . 23.

5694 Manhunter: San Francisco (CP) ... 29.

3394 King's Quest (CP) . 29.

3395 King's Quest II (CP) . 29.

3396 King's Quest III (CP) . 29.

3398 Police Quest (CP) . 29.

3399 Space Quest (CP) . 29.

3400 Space Quest II (CP) . 29.

★ Silicon Beach ... 60 day MBG

3502 Beyond Dark Castle . special 24.

3501 Apache Strike . special 24.

3503 Dark Castle . special 24.

★ Softstream Int’l., Inc. ... 60 day MBG

4071 Mac»Man . 23

4072 The Solitaire DA . 23.

4995 Cribbage Tutor . 26.

6259 22nd Street Whist Tutor . 32.

6258 MacRummy Tutor . 32.

4073 Colour Billiards . 38.

★ Software Toolworks ... 30 day MBG

4619 Mavis Beacon Typing 1 2B (CP) ... 32

1842 Chessmaster 2100 (CP) . 32

6111 Cribbage King-Gin King . 39

140C

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So you can work without

Dove Computer ... 60dayMBG

FastNet III- The best price performance
Ethernet connection available for your Mac II,

I lx, Ilex or Ilci. Supports all types of full
function networking applications $375.

★ Spectrum Holobyte ... 30dayMBG

4175 Solitaire Royale (for Mac SE) . 19.

4001 Solitaire Royale (for Mac II) . 19.

3464 Tetris . 19.

4472 Tetris (color version) . 22.

3462 PT-109 . 26.

3460 GATO . 26.

3459 Falcon 2.0 . 31.

★ Spinnaker ... 30dayMBG

2328 Sargon IV (CP) . 29.

2329 SAT Score Improvement 1 .0 (CP) . . 57.

★ Springboard ... 30dayMBG

4493 Atlas Explorer (CP) . 28.

4988 Hidden Agenda . 36.

★ SubLogic ... 60dayMBG

4698 Jet (CP) . 32.

Europe, Japan, and Hawaii scenery
disks also available . each 19.

★ Think Educational ... 60dayMBG

3615 MacEdge I1 1 .0 (CP) (ages 6-12) ... 27.

True BASIC, Inc.

6110

★ Unicorn ... 30dayMBG

★ Wayzata Tech. ... 60dayMBG

9 The World Factbook 1989 (CD-ROf\

★ XOR ... 30 day MBG

4321

6041

NETWORKS & COMMUNICATIONS

★ Abaton ... 30 day MBG

6266

5817

5174

★ CE Software ... 60 day MBG

5173

QuickMail (10 user Pak) . $249.

★ Microsoft ... 30 day MBG

5636

In/Out (5 user Pak) .

128.

5858

Microsoft Mail 2 0 Workstation. . .

$84.

5638

In/Out (10 user Pak) .

188.

5856

Microsoft Mail 2.0 Server .

. 249.

★CompuServe ... 60 day MBG

5857

Microsoft Mail 2.0 (20 Pack) . . . .

969.

1676

CompuServe Information Service . .

24.

★ Nuvotech ... 60 day MBG

1673

CompuServe Navigator 2.1 .

39.

3000

TurboNet ST (DINS) .

. 30.

1674

Standard Service/Navigator Bundle

59.

3001

TurboNet ST (DB-9) .

. . 30.

Connect, Inc.

5277

TurboBridge .

. . 319.

5834

Connect 1.5 for the Macintosh . . . .

95.

6272

NuvoLinkSC .

369

★ Dove Computer ... 60 day MBG

6261

TurboStar .

1449.

4939

FastNet III .

375.

★ Practical Peripherals ... 30 day MBG

4938

FastNet SE .

375.

3102

2400 Baud External Modem . . . .

. 179.

5624

FastNet SE/30 .

375.

5285

PM 2400SA MNP Modem .

. 209.

4937

FastNet SCSI .

749.

3089

Mac Communications Pack 1 .5 .

. 225.

★ Dow Jones ... 30 day MBG

★ Shiva ... 30 day MBG

5295

News/Retrieval Membership Package 24.

3444

NetSerial X232 .

. 279.

1785

Desktop Express 1 .03 .

95.

4347

NetBridge .

. 339.

★ Farallon Computing ... 30 day MBG

5707 Timbuktu 3.0 . 95.

4866 Timbuktu Remote 1.0.1 . 125.

6371 Timbuktu/Remote Access Pack .. 859.

4867 Timbuktu 30-Pack 3.0 . 1295.

2201 TrafficWatch 1 .08 . 125.

Berkeley Systems ... 30 day MBG

After Dark 1.1- New version! The super screen
saver now comes with three incredible new
modules: Looney Puzzle, NightLines and
Auto-Doodler. Or display your company logo,
messages, or artwork. Programmable. . . $25.

. 45.

2202

PhoneNET to LocalTalk Adapter . .

. 8.

. 45.

5664

PhoneNET StarConnector .

. 21.

6273

PhoneNET StarConnector 10-Pack.

139.

. 27.

4869

PhoneNET Connector 10-Pack . . .

215.

. 27.

2204

PhoneNET PLUS (DB-9) .

. 33.

. 27.

2203

PhoneNET PLUS (DINS) .

. 33.

. 32.

5251

PhoneNET CheckNET .

. 64.

4868

PhoneNET Repeater .

319.

1) 69.

2206

PhoneNET StarController .

829.

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Macworld Labs tests Ethernet
interfaces for the Mac

thernet has become
a viable alternative to LocalTalk. Why?
First, there’s Ethernet’s speed of 10-
megabits per second. Users who trans¬
fer large page-layout,
graphics, and CAD
files or who work
with multiuser data¬
bases need some¬
thing that provides
better network per¬
formance than 230-
kilobits-per-second
LocalTalk.

Second, there’s
connectivity. Ether¬
net is the most popular medium for
networking UNIX workstations, IBM
PCs, and Digital Equipment Corpora¬
tion VAX computers. Putting Macs on
Ethernet means they can access infor¬
mation on those other computers.
Finally, there’s convenience. Because
of its popularity, many corporations al¬
ready have Ethernet installed. So it
makes sense to use the same Ethernet
cable to connect the Macs as well.

A number of devices are now avail¬
able to link Macs to Ethernet. In fact,
if you read “Network Connections”
{Macworld, November 1989), you saw
that the table of Ethernet interfaces

On the

Ethernet

Highway

took up almost a whole page!

In our tests, we wanted to deter¬
mine which of those interfaces offered
the best performance. We decided to
concentrate on testing the Ethernet
products that provided the fastest
throughput to an individual Mac: add¬
in boards for the Mac SE, SE/30, and
Mac II family, and external SCSI-based
devices (see “Ethernet Interfaces”).

We considered LocalTalk to be the
bottleneck in data transfers to Ether¬
net. Therefore, we excluded LocalTalk-

to-Ethernet routers,
such as the Kinetics
FastPath and the
Cayman Systems
Gator Box, from our
tests. Those boxes
provide Ethernet
access to support
Macintoshes on a
LocalTalk network.

We also wanted
to find out what
kind of performance to expect from an
Ethernet network. Very few computers
can actually process data fast enough to
saturate Ethernet’s full bandwidth.
(Take, for example, the fact that Ether¬
net’s speed is on the order of the Mac's
microprocessor and bus speeds.) This
meant we had to test various network

by Dave Kosiur

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

133

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ON THE ETHERNET HIGHWAY

hardware configurations, as well as in¬
vestigate performance bottlenecks in
the Mac itself.

Connecting to Ethernet

Currently four types of media can con¬
nect Ethernet networks: thick-wire co¬
axial cable, thin-wi re coaxial cable, twist¬
ed-pair cable, and fiber-optic cable.

Thick-wire coaxial cable is best
used as a network backbone linking
several workgroups, not necessarily
individual Macs. To attach a Mac to
thick-wire Ethernet, you need a sepa¬
rate transceiver and a cable to connect
the Mac’s Ethernet interface to that
transceiver; the transceiver then con¬
nects to thick-wire Ethernet via a tap.
The cable itself measures a little less
than '/2 inch in diameter and is very in¬

flexible. Thick-wire coaxial cable must
be laid out in segments no longer than
500 meters. Each segment supports up
to 100 nodes. (You can use repeaters
or concentrators to join the cable seg¬
ments and form larger networks.)

On the other hand, thin-ware
Ethernet — nicknamed CheaperNet — is
very popular for creating a workgroup
from individual Macs. Thin-wire Ether¬
net is more flexible, less obtrusive, and
less expensive than thick-wire Ethernet.
There’s no need for large external trans¬
ceivers and taps. All Mac-Ethernet
interfaces have thin-wire transceivers
built in. A thin-wire Ethernet segment
has maximum limits of 189 meters and
30 nodes.

An even more appealing way to
create Mac workgroups is twisted-pair

Add-in boards such as Asante's MacCon
SE30/E (above) provide Ethernet access to
Macs with internal expansion slots.

Ethernet, which uses telephone wire.
Due to electrical considerations, most
twisted-pair lengths are limited to 100
meters. Be forewarned, though;
twisted-pair Ethernet isn’t the same as
Farallon’s PhoneNet. PhoneNet re¬
quires only a single pair of wires — it can
run over either flat modular phone
cable or the regular premises wiring
found in most buildings. Twisted-pair
Ethernet requires two pairs of wires
and must run over regular premises
wiring. Farallon and NuvoTech now
offer star controllers for twisted-pair
Ethernet networks; Kinetics has two
add-in boards, the EtherPort IIL and
EtherPort SEL, that support twisted¬
pair Ethernet on the Mac II family and
the SE, respectively. NetWorth has
also announced EtherNext, a twisted¬
pair Ethernet interface board for the
Mac II family.

Fiber-optic cable is most often
used for networks that need a high-
security Ethernet backbone — high
security, because it’s difficult to tap
into fiber-optic cable and intercept
signals. In addition, fiber-optic cable is
immune to electromagnetic interfer¬
ence (EMI). Macs do not ordinarily
attach directly to fiber-optic Ethernet
cable. The only Mac-Ethernet interface
that currently supports fiber-optic cable
is Network Resources’ Mac2000 board,
with optional fiber-optic adapter.

How Fast Is Fast?

Ethernet is 43 times faster than Local-
Talk. Unfortunately, a Mac cannot pro¬
cess Ethernet data 43 times faster than
it can process LocalTaJk data. We tried
to isolate the bottlenecks that prevent
the Mac from keeping up with Ether¬
net’s 10-megabits-per-second speed.

To determine how each step of the
data-transfer process affects Ethernet

Moving Along

File request

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Operating

System

AppleTalk packets
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= SCSI
£ \ Device Driver

L Bottlenecks

SCSI
hard disk

To understand where the bottlenecks occur in transferring data from the
Mac to Ethernet, you have to examine how data gets from a Mac’s hard
disk onto Ethernet. As an example, here’s what happens when you send a
local file on a Mac II over the Ethernet network with AppleTalk protocols.
When you select a file, the File Manager in the Mac Operating System asks
the SCSI Manager — also part of the Mac Operating System — for the data
(the file). The SCSI Manager sends the request to the SCSI Device Driver
for the SCSI hard disk, which, in turn, instructs the hard disk to find and
retrieve the data. Once the hard disk retrieves the data, it sends the data
to the Mac’s central processing unit (CPU). The CPU creates AppleTalk
packets for the data and then directs those packets to EtherTalk’s IAP
(Link Access Protocol). After that the NuBus Manager in the Mac Operat¬
ing System steers the packets over the NuBus in the Mac to the Ethernet
interface board. Then the interface board takes over. It turns the Ether-
Talk packets into electrical signals that can lie sent over Ethernet. Finally,
the Ethernet board transmits the file as a series of Ethernet packets.

134

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

PIERRE YVES GQAVEC

transfers, we tested various combina¬
tions of hard disks, RAM disks, and
SCSI accelerators. Fast and slow disks
could tell us if disk read-write access
times had much effect; SCSI accelera¬
tor boards could tell us if the Mac’s
SCSI bus and SCSI Manager were a
bottleneck. Our idea was to time file
transfers between an AppleShare server
and client, varying one parameter at a
time — for example, disk-access speed.

While running our preliminary
tests with AppleShare, we tried several
different combinations of fast (10 milli¬
seconds [ms] access time) and slow
(25 to 30ms access time) hard disks on
the client-server pair. Needless to say,
the slow-slow combination proved the
slowest. Surprisingly, a fast-fast combi¬
nation wasn’t the fastest. Instead, we
found that using a fast disk on the
server Mac and a slow disk on the client
Mac produced the best results. Other
factors, such as on-board disk caching,
which varies from disk to disk, can also
affect results.

Despite vendors’ claims, using
SCS1-DMA boards to improve hard
disk access makes little — if any — dif¬
ference in data-transfer rate under the
current System, 6.0.4. One reason for
the lack of any measurable enhance¬
ment in performance might be the clock
speed of the CPU. A faster processor
(such as the 25MHz 68030 used in the
Mac Ilci) might have handled DMA
transfers faster than our test machine,
which was a Ilex with a 16MHz 68030.

transfers were faster without what we
suspected was the primary bottle¬
neck — the SCSI Manager and hard
disk — we did two things (see “Moving
Along”). First, we ran a low-level test
for each Ethernet interface. Second,

we tried using a RAM disk for both the
AppleShare server and the client.

Our low-level test used two Macin¬
tosh Programmer’s Workshop (MPW),
C programs to transfer packets of data
directly from the RAM of one Mac (the

ETHERNET INTERFACES'

Product

Vendor

Price

Thick-wire

Thin-wire

BOARDS FOR MAC II FAMILY 2

Etherlink/NB ★

3Com Corporation

$595

•

EtherPort II ★

Kinetics

$595

•

EtherTalk Interface Card ★

Apple Computer

$699

•

FastNet III ★

Dove Computer Corporation

$599

•

GatorCard E/ll ★

Cayman Systems

$595

•

Mac2000 3

Network Resources

$995

•

Corporation

MacCon ll/E ★

Asante Technologies

$595

•

NAE 2000

Novell

$595

•

NIA310 MacConnect ★

Racal Interlan

$549

•

NuvoLink II

NuvoTech

$395

•

SpeedLink ★

EMAC

$549

•

BOARDS FOR MAC SE

E4020 *

Cabletron Systems

$599

•

EtherLink/SE ★

3Com Corporation

$595

•

EtherPort SE ★

Kinetics

$595

•

FastNet SE ★

Dove Computer Corporation

$599

•

GatorCard E/SE

Cayman Systems

$595

•

IPT 1000

Information Presentation

$499

•

Technologies

MacCon SE/E *

Asante Technologies

$395

•

NAE 1000

Novell

$595

•

BOARDS FOR MAC SE/30

E5020 ★

Cabletron

$649

EtherPort SE/30 ★

Kinetics

$595

FastNet SE/30 ★

Dove Computer Corporation

$599

GatorCard E/30

Cayman Systems

$595

MacCon SE30/E ★

Asante Technologies

$595

EXTERNAL SCSI BOXES 4

Ether + ★

Compatible Systems

$495

•

Corporation

EtherSC 5 ★

Kinetics

$1250

•

FastNet SCSI ★

Dove Computer Corporation

$1249 8

•

Nodem ★

Adaptec

$545

•

NuvoLink SC

Nuvotech

$495

•

Notes from the Field

Every Ethernet interface device for the
Mac was tested three different ways:
with file transfers using AppleShare
2.0.1, with file transfers using TOPS 2. 1
(dated November 16, 1988), and with
low-level tests. We used thin-wire
Ethernet to conduct all tests.

Both the AppleShare 2.0.1 and
TOPS 2.1 file-transfer tests were per¬
formed with a HyperCard stack and a
file-copy XCMD. The XCMD trans¬
ferred a 1MB file from the server to the
client, measures the time the transfer
took, and averages the results for ten
repetitions. These two tests (Apple-
Share and TOPS) should be v iewed as
real-world examples. They can give you
an idea of how a server-client combi¬
nation behaves over Ethernet.

To determine if Ethernet data

* indicates boards have been tested

’ All of the Ethernet interfaces known at press time
are included in this table, although not all of them
were tested. In most cases, the devices that were not
tested were not shipping at the time of our tests
1 Supports Mac II, llx. Hot, Ilci.

3 Includes Apple's Macintosh Coprocessor Platform (MCP).

‘ Supports Mac Plus, Mac SE, Mac SE/30, Mac II
family, and Mac Portable

5 User must choose either thick- wire or thm-wire
support not both

6 Price given is tor thm-wire support, thick-wire support is
available for SI 349.

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135

ON THE ETHERNET HIGHWAY

server) to the RAM of another Mac (the
client) with the AppleTalk Transaction
Protocol (ATP). These low-level test
programs did their own timing and
presented the results on screen after
completion of each test.

Because the programs never ac¬

cessed the hard disk, the low-level test
avoided the SCSI Manager-hard disk
bottleneck. Also, the low-level test used
one specific protocol (ATP) to transfer
data; thus, it depended less on the
entire AppleTalk protocol stack than
the AppleShare and TOPS tests did.

Pushing the Envelope

Measured in kilobytes per second

Slow

0 50

He* SpeedLink
Nodem

NIA310 MacConnect
MacCon ll/E
GatorCard E/ll
FastNet SCSI
FastNet III
EtherTalk Interface Card
EtherPort II
Ether+
EtherLink/NB

SE/30

Nodem
MacCon SE30/E
FastNet SE/30
FastNet SCSI
EtherPort SE/30
Ether +

E5020 =5

Nodem
MacCon SE/E
FastNet SE
FastNet SCSI
EtherPort SE
Ether +
EtherLink/SE
E4020

Plus

Nodem
EtherSC
Ether +
Ilex on LocalTalk

Low-level ATP data transfer
TOPS file transfer
AppleShare file transfer

Results of our three tests (low-level ATP data transfers, TOPS file transfers,
anti AppleShare file transfers) are presented here for each Ethernet
interface we tested. Data is grouped according to the test machine — Mac
lies. Mat SE 30, Mac SE, and Mac Plus. Results for the same tests using
LocalTalk between two Mac Ilex computers are also included for
reference Note: Our low-level MPW test programs, for some reason, did
not run correctly on the Mac Plus. As a result, no low-level results are
available for Mac Plus-Ethernet interfaces.

The benchmarks we obtained
from the low-level tests became our
measure of the maximum performance
of the Ethernet interface devices. As
we discovered, it’s very unlikely you
can achieve those levels of perfor¬
mance in the real world.

It is noteworthy that the results of
our file-transfer test on an AppleShare
RAM disk (using the National Semi¬
conductor Maccelerate board and soft¬
ware) came closest to the results of the
low-level ATP tests for the same con¬
figuration. Unfortunately, AppleShare
is particularly touchy about its instal¬
lation on a RAM disk, and the amount
of RAVI you need to create a useful
server volume makes AppleShare in¬
stallation hardly seem worth it. Still,
it did confirm our suspicion that the
primary bottleneck for Ethernet data
transfers is the SCSI Manager-hard
disk combination.

All of our tests used a Mac Ilex with
an external 321MB hard disk (Micro
Net SBX-330im Wren disk with 10ms
access time) and 5MB of RAM as the file
server. For testing NuBus boards, we
used a Mac Ilex with 5MB of RAM and
an internal 80MB hard disk as the client.
The client Mac SE/30 had an internal
80MB drive and 5MB of RAM; the SE
used in the tests also had an 80MB
internal hard disk and 4MB of RAVI.
The Mac Plus client we used had 2.5MB
of RAVI and an external SuperMac Tech¬
nology DataFrame 20MB hard disk.

We tested NuBus-based boards first
to find the fastest in the bunch. That
turned out to be the Racal Interlan
NIA310 MacConnect board. We then
used that board in the Mac Ilex server
to test the performance of each SCSI
device and the Mac SE family add-in
boards. We tested SCSI-based Ethernet
devices using a Mac Plus, a Mac SE, and
a Mac Ilex as clients.

Comparing Interfaces

When we reviewed the results of our
tests, some points jumped out imme¬
diately (see “Pushing the Envelope”).
Most important, there's little distinc¬
tion in performance among various
add-in boards for the Mac SE and the
Mac II series. Low-level tests indicate
that some boards perform better than
others; real-world measures of perfor¬
mance are pretty much level among all
boards for a particular Mac mcxlel. This

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Price versus Performance

File-transfer rate as a function of purchase price

160

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140

120

100

£ 60

Slow

NIA310 MacConnect 1
SpeedLink <

FastNet III •
E5020

. Ether +
Ether 4-

• EtherTalk NB
GatorCard E/ll
— MacCon SE30/E
— EtherPort SE/30
EtherLink/NB
FastNet SE'30
EtherPort II
MacCon ll/E

I MacCon SE/E

• =ilL- Nodem

Nodem

E4020

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Mac II Boards
SE/30 Boards
SE Boards

SCSI Device on Mac Ilex
SCSI Device on Mac SE/30
SCSI Device on Mac SE
SCSI Device on Mac Plus

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FastNet SE

FastNet SCSI

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$400 $500

Low

$600 $700 $800 $900 $1000 $1100 $1200 $1300

Price High

Many Ethernet interfaces exhibit similar performance on the same Mac (for example, the NuBus add-in boards).
However, a comparison of their price and performance shows a wide range of values. Products with the best
price-performance ratio are in the upper left-hand corner of the chart.

is probably due to the limiting factors
of the disk drive and SCSI Manager
when getting data through the Mac and
onto the Ethernet cable.

We concluded that some boards
are, in fact, capable of better perfor¬
mance than others, but not with the
Mac Operating System’s current sup¬
port for the SCSI bus and hard disks.
Such differences in board performance
may benefit A/UX users, since the
A/UX operating system handles SCSI
hard disks differently from the way
the Mac Operating System does.

We also found some interesting
results for Ethernet SCSI devices. The
Adaptec Nodem seems better suited to
the slower Mac Plus and Mac SE. The
Ether-P, on the other hand, performs
better than the Nodem with the SE/30
and Mac Ilex.

Our Evaluation

Should you buy a board or a SCSI box
to connect a Mac to Ethernet? Your
Ix/st bet is to install an add-in board —

if the Mac model permits. Add-in boards
provide the best performance, and now
that their prices are falling, they offer
the best price-to-performance ratio.

One interesting possibility for a
less expensive workstation is a Mac
SE/30 with the EtherPort SE/30 board.
That combination runs as fast as the
Ilex with the boards we tested.

Don’t overlook the SCSI devices,
however. On the average, a SCSI-
based interface on the Ilex offers 75
percent of the performance of a Ilex
add-in board. Depending on which SCSI
device you use with a Mac SE, perfor¬
mance can approach 85 percent of that
ofan add-in board . And a SCSI interface
can be easily transferred from one Mac
to another.

For the Mac SE or SE/30, space for
add-in boards is at a premium, with
only one slot available. If you already
have a board installed, you won’t be
able to install an internal Ethernet board
too. In such circumstances, the Ether +
is a gtxxl choice.

If you’re using a Mac Portable or a
Plus, your only option for an Ethernet
connection is a SCSI device. There’s
not much of a performance difference
between the Ether-P and the Nodem;
however, the Ether-P costs less.

Macs can easily benefit from Ether¬
net’s speed by taking advantage of the
wide variety of Ethernet interfaces
available. Our tests indicate that with
Ethernet, you can transfer files any¬
where from 2.5 times (for the Plus) to
5.2 times (for the Ilex) faster. Although
the overall costs of installing Ethernet
are higher than LocalTalk, you’ll get
more out of your network. □

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Dave Kosiur. a Macworld contributing
editor, is the publisher of Connections,
an international newsletter con¬
cerned with Macintosh networking He is
waiting for the EtherBunny to make
its annual appearance.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

137

Medical

Desktop

l/i/ hen future medical historians
tally milestones in the evolution of medi¬
cine, I'm convinced they will rank the
computer along with antibi¬
otics, X-rays, and transplant
surgery. Faced with a flood of
data mandated by new gov¬
ernment regulations, hospital
administrators first turned to
powerful mainframe data¬
bases during the 1960s. Since
then computer centers have
become permanent fixtures in
hospitals, clinics, and medical schools.

Desktop computers promised to de¬
liver mainframe muscle to individual us¬
ers, but physicians have been slow to
adopt the technology. Until recently, com¬
puter courses weren’t considered worthy
of inclusion in medical school curricula.
And most doctors, rather than familiariz¬

ing themselves with exotic command se¬
quences, preferred to delegate computer
tasks to assistants or to a handful of com¬
puter-literate colleagues. The
Macintosh, with its icon- and
menu-driven interface, has
played a large part in chang¬
ing medical minds.

The scope and quality of
Macintosh applications cur¬
rently available for health care
purposes is impressive (see
“Mac Medical Medley”). From
sophisticated analysis of biomedical re¬
search data in university laboratories to
the tracking of patient billing in private
practice, the Mac is assuming a critical
role in all aspects of medicine. While I
can’t offer an in-depth look at each of the
many ways that the Mac is assisting phy¬
sicians, I will focus on individual projects

The
Macintosh
plays a
prominent
role

in health
care

^ by Franklin N. Tessler. M.D., C.M. ^

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in three areas — teaching, primary care,
and diagnostic imaging.

Medical Imaging Goes Mac

Although X-rays generally come to mind
when most people think about radiol¬
ogy, the specialty has grown to include
a broad repertoire of other diagnos¬
tic tests, including CT (computed to¬
mography) scanning, MRI (magnetic
resonance imaging), nuclear medicine,
and ultrasound.

Despite all the high-tech equip¬
ment, radiologists most often deal with
images recorded on sheets of transpar¬
ency film, much as they did 50 years
ago. After studying a patient’s images,
the radiologist usually sends a written
report to the referring physician, who
then decides on the appropriate treat¬
ment. Unfortunately, nonradiologists
frequently complain that reports are
slow to arrive, difficult to comprehend,
or both.

In 1986 Dr. William Glenn, Jr., a
Southern California radiologist special¬
izing in CT and MR scanning, devised a
novel solution to the problem. In addi¬
tion to a typed transcript, the referring
doctor would receive a brief narrated

videotape showing the patient’s im¬
ages, with the pertinent findings point¬
ed out and explained. Glenn used an
MS-DOS computer and frame grab¬
ber to create the videotapes. This was
no small feat, given the lack of video
standards for CT and MR scanners. Re¬
ferring physicians were ecstatic, but
Glenn eventually found the system
too costly and time-consuming to be
practical. Still, he narrated over four
thousand tapes before abandoning
the approach.

One problem Glenn faced was the
fact that secondary tasks such as film¬
ing consumed valuable resources on
his expensive imaging equipment. Al¬
though workstations capable of han¬
dling some of the chores were com¬
mercially available, their $100,000 to
$200,000 price tags made them imprac¬
tical. The Macintosh II, with its ability
to handle gray-scale CT and MR images,
seemed the ideal solution. Glenn ap¬
proached biologist Peter Marx with a
proposal that Marx develop a low-cost
imaging station based on the Mac II.
The requirements were straightfor¬
ward: the system would have to be able
to accept diagnostic images directly

from CT and MR machines, manipulate
the images, and send them on to a
hard-copy device for printing. The soft¬
ware would also have to be simple
enough for referring physicians to mas¬
ter and use without special training.

GreasePencil Enters

Marx, who has a passion for late-night
programming, began work on the proj¬
ect in January of 1988. The program
(later dubbed GreasePencil after the
writing tool radiologists use to mark
films) was ready for testing by the fol¬
lowing May. Since then, working with
two other programmers and a host of
informal advisers, Marx has devel¬
oped GreasePencil into a full-featured
image-processing application that can
view, reconstruct, and annotate im¬
ages (see “Slice of Life”).

Along the way, Marx faced several
unexpected obstacles. For example,
when he found that 8-bit images
weren’t sufficient, he turned to Apple’s
untested 32-bit QuickDraw routines.
(GreasePencil was one of several ap¬
plications showcased at Apple’s offi¬
cial 32-bit kickoff last year.)

Hardware development proved no
smaller problem. Whenever possible,
Glenn wanted to work with off-the-
shelf Apple components, sacrificing
the speed offered by third-party accel¬
erator boards in favor of wide availabil¬
ity. Still, there was no way to connect
the Mac to the 3M Laser Imager, a
$90,000 device used to print images
onto sheets of transparency film. With
technical support from 3M, Glenn and
Marx contracted for the design of a
NuBus interface card for the imager.

GreasePencil is being used with
over 20 CT and MR scanners in Califor¬
nia and Arizona, with more locations
on the way. Referring physicians have
already become ardent supporters.
Using Mac Ilex’s and 9600-baud mo¬
dems, orthopedic surgeons can dial in
to an AppleShare network at the Har-
bor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance,
California, and dow nload their patients’
MR scans for review. (CT images, be-

At Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Or. William Glenn, Jr., attaches a Mac II to a very expensive
peripheral — a $4 million MR scanner.

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False-colored sagittal magnetic resonance images

Slice of Life

CT and MR scanners produce cross-sectional
images, or slices, of the body taken at various
angles (bottom). The images are stored in
digital form and can be manipulated and
enhanced. If the slices are sufficiently thin and
close together, GreasePencil uses an
interpolation process to reconstruct individual
slices to appear in three dimensions (top).

Heart of the Matter

Using the Cardiac Imaging Project developed at
Yale University, doctors can store and dis¬
seminate actual scanned images along with
detailed drawings that provide additional infor¬
mation. This project was created using
SuperCard.

cause of their large size, are usually
shipped by courier on optical disk car¬
tridges.) Although several companies
have demonstrated an interest in mar¬
keting GreasePencil, Glenn is as yet
undecided about its future as a com¬
mercial product.

Clinical Problem-Solving

The volume of medical knowledge
doubles every few years, and so the
trend at many medical schools has
been to emphasize problem-solving
skills rather than traditional rote
memorization. In a project under
way at the Harvard Medical School,
Dr. Bob Greenes (pronounced GREEN-
ess) and his colleagues are preparing
to use Macs to train medical students
and physicians in dealing with clinical
problems more effectively.

Greenes, an M.D. with a doctorate
in computer science, heads Harvard’s
Decision Systems Group. While in
medical school, he became intrigued
by the ways in which doctors order
diagnostic tests and record informa¬
tion as they work. Greenes was con¬
vinced that computer programs using
rigid checklists and menus weren’t
acceptable, because they compelled
physicians to restrict their reasoning.

Explorer and the Mac

In 1984 Greenes began working on
Explorer 1, a hypertext program that
incorporates diagnostic algorithms in¬
cluded in the Brigham and Women ’s
Hospital Handbook of Diagnostic
Imaging (Little, Brown & Co., 1986).
Physicians in training use the hand¬
book’s system of flow charts to help
them decide which X-rays and other
imaging tests are required for patients
with specific symptoms.

Meanwhile, faculty members at
the University of Pittsburgh were work¬
ing on an IBM PC program called
Quick Medical Reference, or QMR.
Doctors typically use a patient’s symp¬
toms, physical examination, and test
results to formulate a differential diag¬
nosis — a list of possible diseases in
decreasing order of likelihood. QMR
was devised to support the doctor’s
decision-making process. Greenes
quickly realized just how powerful a
teaching tool QMR could be. Using
Explorer 1 as a framework, he ported
QMR to the Mac in 1986 and later in¬
corporated it into a more compre¬

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

hensive application called Explorer 2.

Actually an object-oriented pro
gramming environment, Explorer 2
lets authors manipulate objects in a
variety of medical knowledge bases —
text, statistics, medical images, spread¬
sheets, and simulations. In the same
way that HyperCard lets users navigate
through stacks containing text, but¬
tons, pictures, and sounds, Explorer 2
permits medical educators to browse,
access, and link many kinds of objects.
Future versions of Explorer will allow
authors to make use of other applica¬
tions (such as SuperCard).

The first Explorer-based project to
be included in the Harvard curriculum
is a simulation involving an elderly
patient with a heart-valve abnormality
(see “Heart of the Matter”). Students
are presented with the patient’s case
history; they then listen to heart sounds,
order tests, and formulate a working
hypothesis. They can view test results
and refine their working diagnosis at
any time. Because students’ interac¬
tions with the program are recorded,
they are actually generating medical
records. Greenes believes this feature
will be of great valuewhen Explorer is
used in the diagnosis of real patients.

Tracking Patient Care

If Greenes’s medical school class¬
rooms are the equivalent of a soldier’s
boot camp, then clinicians’ offices
are the front line of the health care
battlefield. Unfortunately, just keep¬
ing track of what goes on consumes
much ofadoctor’s valuable time. From
the initial patient interview through
each physical exam, lab test, diagnosis,
and treatment, every minute detail has
to be meticulously recorded.

While it might seem likely that doc¬
tors would have adopted computers
for logging patient records, a glance at
the reams of paper in offices and hospi¬
tal wards demonstrates otherwise.
Daunted by the enormity of computer¬
izing volumes of existing records, the
medical profession has continued to
put up with illegible handwriting and

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MAC MEDICAL MEDLEY

Boon after the Mac's 1984 debut,
many physicians discovered how
effectively the computer could be
used to handle routine chores such as
writing reports and preparing teaching
materials. As medical professionals be¬
come more comfortable with computer
technology, the catalog of Macintosh
applications grows steadily. Apple's
higher education group tracks an exten¬
sive list of health care-related endeav¬
ors based at United States colleges and
universities. Many other projects are
under way in the private and commer¬
cial sectors.

Electric Cadaver At Stan¬
ford University, Dr. Robert
Chase and Steven Freed¬
man wrote Electric Cadaver, a Hyper¬
Card program that teaches anatomy
using drawings and scanned images
stored on videodisk. The program was
originally written by Chase for the IBM
PC; the Macintosh version runs on the
SE, but it requires a Mac II to display the
high-resolution color images directly
on the computer monitor.

Cardiac Imaging Project At

Yale University, Dr. Carl Jaffe
and his colleagues have de¬
veloped an interactive SuperCard stack
for teaching echocardiography, an ul¬
trasound process for examining the
heart. Like Electric Cadaver, Jaffe's soft¬
ware makes extensive use of video¬
disks. Jaffe's students use the software
front end to navigate through informa¬
tion stored on videodisk.

Bone Diagnosis Project In

another HyperCard project,
at Pennsylvania State Uni¬
versity, Dr. John Mayer has used the

Macintosh to teach students and physi¬
cians a logical approach to diagnosing
bone tumors.

PathMac Drs. Daniel Alonzo
and Steven Erde with Diana
Macken developed Path-
Mac, a system for teaching pathology
at Cornell University. Proving that medi¬
cal educators recognized hypertexts
potential even before the release of
HyperCard, PathMac was created us¬
ing Guide, one of the early hypertext
applications.

Diagnostic Imaging While a
doctoral candidate at UCLA's
Department of Radiological
Sciences, Dr. Osman Ratib wrote a Mac¬
intosh ll-based system for examining
and enhancing diagnostic images (see
Macworld News, July 1988). Now at
the University of Geneva, Ratib plans
to expand the software's capabilities;
among the enhancements will be
modules for teaching.

Report and Image Manage¬
ment System Not all the pio¬
neering work is confined to
university labs. Medical Image Pro¬
cessing Specialists, a company in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, developed the Report
and Image Management System for
viewing and reporting nuclear medi¬
cine images.

Teleradiology Dr. Jeremy
Rubin, a radiologist in private
practice in Northern Califor¬
nia, has written an application for the
Mac II that transmits and receives im¬
ages over high-speed modems. Rubin's
program, commercially availablefrom
Icon Medical Systems, can be used to

send diagnostic images from remote
sites to a radiologist for interpretation.

Knowledge Finder The Macin¬
tosh is also making life easier
for medical researchers. Aries
Systems Corporation's Knowledge
Finder lets users scan through thou¬
sands of references stored on CD ROM
disks to find papers relevant to their
area of interest.

Bibliographic Referencing

Software such as EndNote
from Niles 8 Associates and
Pro-Cite from Personal Bibliographic
Software enables authors to import
bibliographic references into their ar¬
ticles (see Reviews, Macworld, Febru¬
ary 1989 and September 1988).

HealthFile In an ambitious proj¬
ect under way in Los Angeles,
Drs. Mayer A. Brenner and
Douglas McConnell are developing a
Macintosh-based system they hope
will revolutionize the way doctors
keep records. The system, called Health-
File, assumes physicians will be hap¬
piest using tools they're already famil¬
iar with; the program emulates the in¬
dex cards and other forms that doc¬
tors use daily. Designed to handle the
large volume of patients in busy clinics
and hospitals, the package will also be
applicable to office practices. (Health-
File was prototyped using 4th Dimen¬
sion, but it will be implemented in a
compiled language for speed.) Nego¬
tiations are in progress to bring Health-
File to market. Brenner and McConnell
believe the computerized medical chart
is inevitable, and they foresee the day
when a computer at the patient's bed¬
side is as familiar as a telephone today.

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Positron-emission tomographic images

misplaced documents.

Dr. Anthony Zahra-Newman, an
Australian family practitioner with a
special interest in psychiatry, was cer¬
tain that computers could help dis¬
mantle the paper logjam. Most of the
commercially available software was
limited in scope or too difficult for
most physicians to use. Attracted by
the Mac’s unique user interface, Zahra-
Newman, along with wife Margaret-
Anne and friend John McMullen, be¬
gan to fashion comprehensive medi¬
cal office software called the Medical
Electronic Desktop, or M.E.D.

M.E.D. to the Rescue

JAM Software (the acronym is from the
first names of its three founders) was
formed in 1985 to develop and market
M.E.D. software. Although JAM is best
known for a personal reminder desk
accessory called Smart Alarms, M.E.D.
has been the company’s primary focus
from the outset. Like Greenes, McMul¬
len and the Zahra-Newmans began their
work on a Lisa; they were later joined
by programmers Simon Evans, Tseung
Cheung (also a physician), Frank Ng,

A case simulation developed with Dr. Bob
Greenes's Explorer 2 application is being used
to train medical students at the Harvard
Medical School.

and Alan Blair. To lure doctors away
from their charts, the M.E.D. team knew
they had to realize two objectives: the
software had to be simple to learn and
use, and it had to be capable of, at the
very least, duplicating all the record¬
keeping that doctors were performing
manually.

A modular system of programs and
desk accessories, the M.E.D. Patient
application runs on the SE and later
models; it is used to enter histories, re¬
sults from physical exams and tests,
and treatment regimens. A complete
set of object-oriented drawing tools
lets doctors record their impressions
in graphic form (to illustrate the area
of a burn or a cut , for example) . Patient
records can be maintained chronologi¬
cally or in the widely used problem-ori¬
ented format. Since no two practices
are exactly alike, all M.E.D. Patient’s
checklists, entry screens, and graphics
can be customized using a separate
program called M.E.D. Maker.

M.E.D.’s extensive medical knowl¬
edge base provides doctors with an in¬
valuable resource. Because of the pro¬
liferation of tests and drugs available
today, potentially harmful interactions
are an ever-present danger. Although
the physician still has the ultimate re¬
sponsibility for recognizing and as¬
sessing risks, M.E.D. Patient acts like a
watchdog, alerting the doctor to pos¬
sible conflicts and allergic reactions.
All doctors’ interactions with patient
records are logged automatically, and
to comply with medico-legal require¬
ments, users of the program can elect
to make it impossible to alter notes
once they’ve been written. To protect
the confidentiality of patient records,
M.E.D. Patient provides two levels of
password protection.

M.E.D. is now being used at over
50 sites in Australia, with additional
sites in New' Zealand and Chile. The
lack of a suitable billing module has
prevented it from receiving as much
attention in this country (a billing pack¬
age for U.S. practices is nearly com¬
plete). One of the largest M.E.D. instal¬

lations in the United States will soon be
at Kaiser Permanente’s HIV/AIDS clinic
in Los Angeles. If the implementation
is a success, the clinic will act as a mod¬
el for similar projects throughout the
Kaiser Permanente system.

Mac to the Future

Who the hell wants to hear actors
talk ? — Harry Warner, Chairman,
Warner Brothers, 1927

l think there is a world market for
about five computers. — Thomas J.
Watson, CEO, IBM Corporation, 1947

As these memorable quotes aptly
demonstrate, predicting the future of
technology has always been a risky'
business. When the first CT scanners
appeared in the early 70s, the ma¬
chines were confined to large research
institutions and it took them ten min¬
utes to produce a single image. By 1980,
CT scanners had become commonplace
and entire multislice examinations
could be completed in minutes. Today,
as we’ve seen, three-dimensional pic¬
tures of the body can be rendered on
a Macintosh. And the pace of develop¬
ment in other areas of medicine has
been equally astonishing.

As the twenty-first century ap¬
proaches, our health care system faces
formidable challenges. We must pro¬
vide treatment in the midst of expand¬
ing deficits and declining budgets;
cope with AIDS and other catastrophic
illnesses; and above all, apply tech¬
nology without sacrificing the compas¬
sion that has always been the corner¬
stone of patient care. Whatever path¬
way the medical profession follows,
you can be sure that the Macintosh and
its successors will play a key role. □

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Franklin N. Tessler, an assistant professor
of radiological sciences at UCLA
specializing in ultrasound, is a Macworld
contributingeditor.

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143

An overview

of 8-bit and
24-bit electronic
palettes

Color Paint
Revisited

by Bert Monroy

144

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Crush a car and it’s garbage; put
it on a pedestal and it’s art. Until
very recently, most artists, art
directors, and curators consigned com¬
puter-generated art to the cultural dust¬
bin. As the medium becomes more re¬
fined and accessible, however, we see
the best examples being accepted as
contemporary art. A computer-gener¬
ated film, Tin Toy, won an Oscar last
year, for instance.

With the advent of 32-bit Quick¬
Draw and the proliferation of 24-bit add¬
on boards, the Macintosh enters the
realm of professional-quality tools, and
choosing a color paint program is more
difficult than ever. To help you deter¬
mine which program or programs are
most appropriate for your needs, I will
look at the more interesting features of
today’s leading color paint programs.
Drawing on more than 20 years experi¬
ence as a commercial artist, I will make
recommendations and offer a few tips.
( You might also want to look at “Brushes
with Color "Macworld, May 1989.)

PixelPaint's Digital Palettes

To begin working on an image, you
must first create a color palette. Pixel-
Paint 2.0 is an 8-bit color program, which

each pixel has access to a full 16.7 mil¬
lion colors, allowing you to create
much more realistic images.

Of the color paint packages sur¬
veyed, SuperMac’s PixelPaint 2.0 and
PixelPaint Professional provide the
widest assortment of color selection
methods. In addition to several precon¬
figured palettes, both PixelPaint appli¬
cations let you create your own. The
easiest option uses Apple’s Color Picker,
familiar to most Mac II owners. Next,
PixelPaint’s Pantone color-selection dia¬
log box provides truly effective electronic
access to the Pantone Matching System
(PMS) (see “Pantone Easel”). Unlike the
little swatches of color that appear in
most programs, PixelPaint offers a large
on-screen book displaying 49 swatches
at a time. It’s easy to navigate through
the book, and if you know the PMS
number, you can type it in and go di¬
rectly to the page with that color swatch.
The color-selection dialog box provides
space for comparing up to seven colors
before you make a final selection.

Other color-selection methods in¬
clude RGB (red, green, blue), HSV
(hue, saturation, value), and CMYK (cyan,
magenta, yellow, black) windows. A
Color Theory' option lets you create

UUSTRADONS BY M ICK WIGGMS

means that each pixel stores 8 bits of in¬
formation, and each document created
with the application has access to a pal¬
ette containing up to 256 colors or
shades of gray'. PixelPaint Professional
is designed to run on a 24-bit color sys¬
tem (it requires a 24-bit board); it also
works in 8-bit mode. In 24-bit mode

colors using analogous and complemen¬
tary' colors. (Analogous colors are those
closest to the selected color on the wheel;
complementary' colors are those appear¬
ing on the opposite side of the wheel.)

There is also the Color Mixer,
which appears in PixelPaint Professional
but not in 2.0. Color Mixer closely imi-

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145

tates the way pigments are mixed on a traditional
palette. You smear one color into the next and
blend them tocreate new variations. On this digital
palette, you have a scratch pad for experimenting
and seven blending tools: bucket, spray can, brush,
pencil, eraser, water drop, and finger. An eighth
tool, a dropper, lets you pick up a desired color
and make it warmer, cooler, darker, or lighter. To
create gradients, you can either blend colors or
apply a white-to-black ramp to any hue.

Colorama with Studio/8

If you don’t like the preconfigured palettes that
come with Electronic Arts’ Studio/8, you can once
again create your own. Studio/8’s Color Mixer is
similar to the one in PixelPaint, incorporating a
scratch pad with six color boxes on either side.
Scrolling through each of the color boxes dis¬
plays a changing range of hues. You can choose a
color or color range using one of four brush sizes
and then smear it onto the scratch pad. New colors

t Hi* I dll Option* Matk Morquo* Effect*

Pantone Easel

PixelPaint 2.0 and PixelPaint Professional make it easy to
select colors using the Pantone Matching System. You can
page through the Pantone "book" or type in the number for
the desired color; if you click on a color at the bottom of the
screen, the appropriate Pantone page appears.

Ray Honda, a designer at Primo Angeli in San Francisco, created
this packaging for Atari's Lynx using PixelPaint Professional.

are automatically added to the color storage boxes
at the bottom of the window (up to 230 colors can
be stored at a time). To add colors to your working
palette, click on a single color or a range of colors
in the storage boxes. You can move only 32 colors
at once, but this is a very workable number.

The Color Square window contains a grid
with 14 boxes on a side. To determine a range of
colors, you choose colors for the corner boxes
(either two opposing corners or all four) and the
gradient between the corner colors fills in. You
then send individual colors or ranges of color to
the palette by clicking the OK button. In Studio/8,
you create gradients in the define gradients win¬
dow; they then appear in a slot in the gradients-
selection window on the main tool palette. You
can’t select a portion of a gradient as you can in
PixelPaint, and the transition from color to color
isn’t as smooth.

Modern Artist's Palette Tricks

Modern Artist’s palette-modification window
employs the familiar color wheel; unfortunately
the implementation of this device falls short. The
only visible color variations appear along the

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Computer Friends

Microillusions

SuperMac

Electronic Arts

Version

2,0

1.1

2.0

1.0

List price

$495

$299

$699

$395

$495

COLOR

Mix colors on screen

•

Palette colors displayed

92 plus 4 ranges

256

16.7 million

256

Variable dithering for gradients

•

Save color ranges

•

CYMK color editing

•

TOOLS

Number of regular polygons

Smooth path

•

Bezier curve

•

Fractal lines

•

Adjust arc by apex

•

Any selection can be brush

•

via Clipboard

•

Create multicolor brush

•

via Clipboard

•

Adjust airbrush size

two sizes

•

Adjust airbrush shape

•

Splatter cap for airbrush

•

Mix fonts/sizes in text blocks

•

SEIiCTlON CAPABILITIES

Select specified colors

all but one; one only

•

Select from inside shape

•

Edit tools work with lasso

•

some, not all

•

Levels of magnification

4x, 7x, 1 6x

4x and up

2x, 4x, 6x, 8x

2x, 4x, 8x

2x, 4x, 6x, 8x

MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES

AND EFFECTS

Masking

with protect colors

selection/last object

by shape/color

Transparent page

•

Visible grid

•

Open multiple documents

•

Screen autoscroll

optional

•

Wrap object onto shapes

•

Bend selection

•

Resize selection by percent

•

Move drawing in Show Page

•

Light source, diffuse selection

•

Tile effect

for wrapped objects

•

Sharpen, diffuse selection

•

Online help

•

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Read*

1,2, 5,7

1,2,3. 5. 6,8

1,2, 3. 5, 6,8

1.2.3

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1,2, 7

1,2, 3. 5, 6.8

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via utility

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TIFF 4 = IRIS 5

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147

wheel’s thin outline. Although the center of the
wheel does contain color information, it appears
white on the screen. The palette-modification win¬
dow also contains a box that displays the key color
being modified. To the right of the key-color box
are three bars called the Color Sorting Area; each
bar has five swatches that relate to the key color
in hue, tint, and intensity. This is where you view
color modification and ultimately select the color
to be used.

Once the desired color is created, you simply
drag it from the sorting area to a slot in the user-
defined palette. Even though Modern Artist al¬
lows you access to 256 colors per document, it
displays only 92 of them in the palette. Modern
Artist has two modes: standard and expert, which
creates a very nice dither for blends.

Wrapping with Photon Paint

Another player in the market, Photon Paint, opens
with the standard system palette. Triple-clicking

4 I '•* ttflt Selection Brush Tent Mask Color (oodles Windows

Wood Be Fun

Studio/8 comes with an assortment of scanned textures
ranging from soft fabric to stonelike faux marble. To create
this image, I chose the texture Dark Oak. I then rotated it to
follow the angle of the illustrated palette. Next, I adjusted
the perspective. Finally, I placed the outline of the palette
over the texture. I eliminated one pixel from the outline to
allow the texture to show through.

(sometimes it takes four clicks, actually) on any
color brings up Apple’s Color Picker window.
The major complaint I have with this package is
that it breaks away from the Mac’s user interface
so completely. Creating blends, gradients, and
color combinations is much too labor-intensive.
The program has some nice features, but I found
the palettes in Photon Paint much too frustrating.

Colors, Colors Everywhere

Now that we’ve covered palette creation, let’s use
the colors. The tools in these programs are plen¬
tiful, and most retain the look-and feel of the old
MacPaint. But there are dozens of new tools too.

PixelPaint 2.0 starts with the usual assortment
of tools — pencil, modifiable brush, bucket, hand,
and eraser — but each one also comes with a spe¬
cial-effects mode. A toggle switch at the top of the
toolbox takes you from normal mode to special
effects. In special-effects mode, each tool has
its own menu. When the brush tool is selected,
for instance, a Brush menu appears, containing
17 options, including diffuse, shadow, smooth,
smear, darken, and lighten. You can even paint
with whatever is currently in the Clipboard.

The line tool, in special-effects mode, has
quite a few options including Fractal, which lets
you control how jagged a line will be. I recently
used this feature to illustrate a vine-covered wall.
Lines created with fractals also come in handy for
cracks or lightning.

The number of selection tools in PixelPaint is
impressive. The usual effects — smooth, blur, dif¬
fuse, and so on — can be applied to selected areas;
there are nine levels of warp; and you can view a
fish-eye-lens version of the image. You can also
distort, slant, free rotate, add perspective, and
even blow up a selection as though it were on the
outside of a balloon.

In PixelPaint Professional, on the other hand,
the tools are always in special-effects mode. The
program includes a few new tools that until now
have appeared only in advanced image-manipula¬
tion programs. Even in 8-bit mode, all the tools

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III!

ere's a glimpse at three
new color paint programs
that were not yet released
when this article was written —
PhotoShopfrom Adobe, Color-
Studiofrom Letraset.and Ultra-
Paint from Deneba Software.

The first two programs are
billed as photo retouching and
color prepress programs first
and color paint programs sec¬
ond. While both programs work
in 8-bit mode, they shine in 24-
bit mode. The tools and color¬
handling abilities in both pro¬
grams are strong enough to give
major paint-box systems (the
ones that currently bear price
tags in the neighborhood of a
quarter million dollars) a run for
the money. Both programs are
so heavily layered with features
that it would require an entire
article to discuss their potential.
Due to space limitations, all I
can give you is a teaser.

To select colors that relate
to a chosen color, you can use
the Grow command from the
Select menu; colors falling
within a standard deviation of
the original and whose pixels
adjoin it are added to the selec¬
tion. The Similar command
works in much the same way,
but colors that fall within the
standard deviation throughout
the entire image are selected.

If you use the above com¬
mands in conjunction with the
airbrush, for instance — which
lays down a smooth transpar¬
ent coating of color that in¬
creases in opacity as you apply
subsequent coats — you can
paint over a discrete element
within the document — a flower,
for example. If you invert the
selection, the airbrush passes
over the flower.

The feather option fades
the edges of a selected area out

Still Life on Cloth

This image was painted from life using a prerelease version of Photoshop. The
program's sophisticated 24-bit blend and smooth tools make it possible to
render representations that are surprisingly realistic.

to a definable distance, creating
a smooth edge that blends into
the background. Filters provide
effects such as motion blurs that
are not possible anywhere else.
For example, I recently broke
up an image into a series of mo¬
saiclike tiles. I designated the
tiles' size. I then applied a Find
Edges filter to outline the mo¬
saic tiles, then I applied a diffu¬
sion filter. The result was a shag
rug that I then distorted, added
perspective to, and laid on the
floor of a room I was drawing.

As if the vast assortment
of tools and effects were not
enough, there is even antialiased
type that's compatible with
the Adobe Type Manager.

ColorStudio is an incred¬
ible upgrade to its predecessor,
the black-and-white Image-
Studio, from Letraset. Colors
can be selected in a variety of
ways including a Pantone se¬
lector that when released will
set a new standard.

The Bucket tool uses fill
patterns in much the same way
as ImageStudio does, but with
anaddedfeature: you can store
fill patterns. You select patterns
from a floating window called
Fill Pattern Library, which dis¬
plays a large swatch of available
patterns as well as the currently
selected pattern. The number
of patterns in the library is lim¬
ited to memory. There are some
useful fill patterns bundled with
the program. As in PhotoShop,
the features go on and on.

Deneba's UltraPaint should
be available by the time you
read this. Combining color paint
capabilities, object-oriented
drawing tools, and gray-scale
image processing, the program
promises to provide a number
of sought-after tools. Auto¬
tracing, bezier curves, rota¬
tion, and 600-dpi precision are
among its many features.

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can produce an antialiased stroke. (Antialiasing is
the blurring of a line or edge to give the impres¬
sion that it is smooth and not stair-stepped.) If
for some reason you want the familiar jaggies
associated with bitmaps, you can turn off the
antialiasing. In 24-bit mode, the airbrush performs
beautifully. Its spray is nice and even, not the
pixelized splatters we’ve tolerated in the past.

Select Tools

Studio/8 comes with the usual set of tools. The
brush is the only tool with its own menu, and it
offers a broad range of special effects. You can
smooth overlapping colors, lighten or darken the
current color, or blend colors. The neon brush
works with selected gradients; and when you
cross a line over itself, the edges blend perfectly
rather than overlapping each other. The Last Ob-

' 4 File Edit Windows Color Options Font Style

Spheres and Boxes

Using the 3-D effects in Modern Artist, you can easily create
shaded spheres and outline boxes. To choose the shades for
the sphere, first pick a color for the 3-D tool; then assign a
color to the circle tool. The sphere will contain a gradient
between the two colors. To create a see-through box, draw
a rectangle while in 3-D mode. The program automatically
draws the back sides of the box, which can be sized with
the mouse and dragged into position.

ject- > Brush tool lets you transform the last object
you created into a brush. The Trace with Brush
tool traces any selection with the currently se¬
lected brush.

Studio/8’s selection tools — lasso, marquee, and
polygon— distinguished the program when it first
came out. To make multiple selections, you hold
down the3€ key while selecting. (The Shift key is
traditionally used for this purpose.) Pressing the
Control key freezes the cursor into a pointer,
which makes it easy to move or duplicate selec¬
tions. The selection tools have four methods of
operation: No Shrink selects an entire area, includ¬
ing background; Shrink selects objects, omitting
the background; Shrink/Transparent omits all
background color (which is great for those holes
in letters like O and B); and Expand selects from
within a color.

Another great feature in Studio/8 is the Define
Perspective Plane window. You simply click on a
button to determine the angles of perspective to
be viewed real-time in a view window. A small
grid responds to your commands. Once you’ve
settled on a perspective plane, any selected object
will be cast into that plane. You can also fill the
perspective plane with the selection; for instance,
you can take a scanned sand texture and create
an entire beach (see “Wood Be Fun”).

Tools, Tools Everywhere

The oval tool has a nice advantage in that it lets
you rotate ovals into any position as they are being
created. There’s a bezier-curve tool and an arc
tool that let you modify objects as they are being
created. A Multi-Draw feature lets you create trails
made up of repetitions of one object.

Studio/8’s masking capabilities are still my
favorites. You can mask selected objects or the last
object created; mask individual colors or ranges;
invert the mask or even save it for later use.

Finally, a feature that is definitely worth men¬
tioning — all the tool modifiers, color and gradient
selectors, and line-weight and pattern selectors
can be torn off as independent, floating windows.

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r 4 File Edit Options Effects fonts Style Mode

Wrapping It Up

Photon Paint's best feature is its ability to wrap images to
a shape. Here the image at the bottom of the screen is
wrapped around a sphere, a cylinder, and a cone. One
drawback is that Photon Paint's tools and palettes (left)
take up so much screen space.

Buckets and Spheres

The tools in Modern Artist are not as intuitive as
many of us would like, and the icons are generally
unlike those in any other program (the paint
bucket is flipped horizontally, for instance), but
some of the tools do include some very nice
features. In 3-D mode, the circle, rectangle, and
brush tools draw sophisticated images. If you use
the brush in 3-D mode to draw a crawling worm —
even with a shaky hand — it’s easy to get a smooth
curved stroke with a ribbon effect; the 3-D color
appears on the front of the ribbon, the brush color
on the back. The rectangle tool lets you create
boxes; you can even manipulate their depth (see
“Spheres and Boxes”). The circle tool lets you
create spheres lit with a movable light source.

Mapping Shapes

About the only cool feature I found in Photon
Paint is the ability to wrap images onto spheres
and other shapes (see “Wrapping It Up”). The early
ads for the program played up this simple process,
which works with any selected image. You can
map the images to predefined shapes or to your
own shapes using menu choices. The results are
quite good; but whenever I really need that effect,
I prefer to use one of the great new 3-D packages
that generate much cleaner texture maps.

Finishing Touches

If you’re looking for a color paint program, you
must gauge a program’s strengths; you may need
to combine programs if one doesn’t meet all your
needs. This raises the question of file compatibility
between programs. Most paint programs save
documents in their own formats but can also save
files as PICT images. For instance, I usually create
intricate line work in Adobe Illustrator 88. While in
artwork-only mode in Illustrator, 1 save the image
as a PICT file. I then bring the file into PixelPaint to
add color and save it once again as a PICT file. I
then use the masking capabilities in Studio/8, which
also reads PICT files, to add texture.

As a professional illustrator it is important that

I keep an eye out for new advances in the technol¬
ogy. Given the state of the art today, if I could
afford only one package, I’d choose PixelPaint
Professional. It has the most to offer and is re¬
markably easy to use. If I could add only one other
package to my electronic paint box, it would be
Studio/8. The two programs complement each
other wonderfully.

It’s exciting to watch the technology develop.
It is now simple to create images using sophisti¬
cated effects that until recently were only possible
if one had access to an army of outside consul¬
tants and a hefty wallet. When I was a kid playing
with crayons, I never dreamed that a medium as
rich and versatile as computer graphics could ever
exist. How I envy the kids of tomorrow. □

Bert Monroy is a professional illustrator and animator
with extensive experience on the Macintosh He is also a
partner in incredible interactivity, a graphics firm

See Where to Buy for contact information.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

151

ERASABLE
OPTICAL
DRIVES ARE
PLENTIFUL,
BUT STILL
NOT CHEAP

The first optical drives wowed people by storing
huge amounts of data on removable, sliver-thin
disks. But because data could be written on the disks
only once, they weren’t a practical storage solution
for most people. Finally the day has come when data
can reliably be written to the disks, erased, and
written again. Tests from Sony and other drive manu¬
facturers show that you can perform 1000 of these
read-write cycles per day for 40 years with no prob¬
lems — a figure comparable to that for magnetic disks.

Magneto-optical drives, or more familiarly, eras¬
able opticals, use erasable, removable 5 ‘/4-inch disks
that store approximately 300 megabytes of data per
side. These disks look like audio compact disks
and come packed in a hard plastic cartridge, with a
metal door and a write-protect switch. Unlike com¬
pact disks, which you remove from the case to play,
erasable optical disks always stay in the case, even

ERASABLE OPTICALS

new light on data

BY CHARLES SEITER

when you insert one into the drive. Thus, erasable
optical disks are often referred to as cartridges.

Effectively, an erasable optical drive gives you a
series of independent, not particularly fast 300MB
hard disks that have one remarkable property — they
can be ejected like IT )ppies and carted easily from sys-

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ERASABLE OPTICALS

tem to system. The price for a drive,
however, is steep — around $5000. Af¬
ter that initial outlay, per megabyte
cost of storage is dirt cheap. For about
$250, you get 600MB ofstorage — that’s
about 42 cents per megabyte. You’d
pay about $500 for an equivalent set of
750 rather inconvenient floppies or
about $1300 for a set of 45MB Syquest
removable hard disk cartridges.

Is this your ideal storage system?
Well, maybe. Because the technology
is still new and the drives are not yet
sold in large quantities, erasable opti¬
cal command stiff prices — an average
of $5500 per drive. For comparison, a
300MB Winchester drive costs about
$3000 and provides significantly faster
data transfer, making it better as a start¬
up device or as a network file server. In
addition, a high-capacity Winchester
drive gives you 600MB of continuous
space, while erasable opticals give you
a maximum of 325MB per volume — an
amount that may be uncomfortably
small for networks with more than ten
users.

The 15 drives I tested used either
Ricoh or Sony drive mechanisms. As a
result there is little difference in per¬
formance, reliability, and storage ca¬
pacity between them. Only Storage
Dimensions’ LaserStor drive (which was
not quite ready for review when this ar¬
ticle was written) uses a mechanism
developed by Maxtor and offers car¬
tridges with a capacity of 500MB per
side. Differences between the drives
can be found in software, documenta¬
tion, warranty, and price. I’ll give you a
closer look at the pros and cons of
owning one of these tempting drives,
and I’ll pick some price-versus-perfor-
mance leaders from the array of cur¬
rent offerings.

Favored Foursome

Four erasable optical drives provide a superior combination of value and features: (clockwise from
left to right) the Microtech OR650, the Pinnacle Micro REO-650, the La Cie Cirrus 600, and the PLI
Infinity Optical.

If you need access to lots of graph¬
ics or digitized sound files, note that
four cartridges give you command of
2.4 gigabytes of data. That’s an impres¬
sive amount, but it’s even more im-

II the drives

I tested worked with

of space. Alphatronix, whose founders
developed much of the technology
behind erasable optical disks in the
early 1980s, have performed numer¬
ous tests that indicate a physical shelf
life of more than ten years for the poly¬
carbonate and metallic-film disks. In
short, you don’t have to worry about
storing files only to find that the disks
have worn out.

Different Tasks, Different Tools

Several types of applications scream
out for an erasable optical drive. If you
need a high level of data security for a
database or other large body of infor¬
mation, you can make several copies of
your data on different erasable optical
cartridges and store them in separate
safes. The hart! plastic cartridges that
contain the optical disk are also ideal
for shipping or transporting data — dis¬
tributing databases to branch offices
from a central location is a popular use
of erasable opticals.

no glitches, straight
out of the box

pressive that you can access random
files at speeds approaching those of a
hard disk. Mac users who need to
maintain libraries of color PICT files,
digitized sound, or databases will find
these drives the most convenient way
to do it.

Finally, erasable optical drives offer
an excellent solution to the problem of
archiving tons of files in a small amount

Bugless Wonders

Not only are the disks made to with¬
stand day-to-day storage demands, but
the drive subsystems that hold the
disks are also quite reliable, as is the
driver software. All the drives I tested,
in contrast to high-capacity hard drives,
worked with no glitches, straight out of
the box (see “High-Capacity Hard
Disks,” Macworld November 1989).
No driver software caused the system
to crash nor were any data files cor¬
rupted or lost.

Drive reliability is directly related

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Looking Inside

As you would expect, an erasable optical drive is somewhat more complex than a conventional magnetic disk
drive. Besides the several sets of magnetic coils, you can see the read-write laser assembly a little to the left of the
disk spindle. Erasable optical drives have a write-protect switch, much like the one on floppy disks (upper right).
Also, looking at the mechanism you see some of the reasons why optical drives are slower than magnetic drives.
First, a pair of erase coils is used because optical drives require an “erase-then-write” cycle. Second, the
mechanism that moves the laser head is heavier than the mechanism used to move a conventional magnetic
read-write head.

to the storage technology (see “Look¬
ing Inside”). Unlike hard disks or flop¬
pies. the data on an erasable optical
cartridge is safe from damage by stray
magnetic fields, such as those near
the back of a monitor. Erasable optical
drives don't suffer from head crashes
either since the optical read-write
head is very far from the surface, at
least in comparison to a hard disk.
Finally, the drive subsystem man¬
ufacturers use sophisticated, propri¬
etary error-checking schemes to en¬
sure data integrity. These schemes are

only possible because of the optical
drives’ high capacities.

The Formatting Quandry

The read-write assembly on these
drives is relatively large and heavy, so
there’s typically only one assembly
per drive unit (Pinnacle Micro offers a
two-drive unit and a multidrive “juke¬
box”). This is why you must turn the
cartridge over to access both sides; the
cartridge looks to the Finder like two
different 300MB drives that trade
places on the Desktop.

The 300MB figure is approximate.
There are two types of commonly avail¬
able cartridges, a 512-bytes-per-sector
variety, which can be used in Sony or
Ricoh drives, and a 1024-bvtes-per-
sector variant only for Sony’s. Con¬
trary to what you might think, the
1024-bytes-per-sector cartridges hold
only 50MB more than the 51 2-bytes-
per-sector cartridges. That’s because
the 1024-bytes-per-sector cartridges
use about half the number of sectors
that the 512-bytes-per-sector car¬
tridges do.

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155

ERASABLE OPTICALS

SPEED, CACHES, BENCHMARKS, AND ALL THAT

D he quoted data-transfer rate for any of these erasable op-
ticals is better than 600 kilobits per second. That works
out to 75K per second, suggesting that an erasable opti¬
cal should be able to open a 300K Excel file in 4 seconds, plus
a few seconds for overhead. Nothing remotely like this is pos¬
sible, nor can you open a 492K Illustrator file in 7 seconds. The
75K-per-second transfer rate, however, suggests that you can
open a 1.2MB PageMaker file in 16 seconds, and in fact some
drives come close to this (22 seconds isn’t bad). What's going
on here?

If the application and System File Manager let the driver
software read a data file straight from the disk and write it
into RAM, you see the full transfer rate. The PageMaker case
is close to this ideal. If the data on the disk must pass into a
buffer on the drive or the Mac that's smaller than the file and
then back to contiguous RAM one piece at a time, the pro¬
cess slows down (the Excel case). Similarly, you lose effi¬
ciency if small files are first transferred to a large buffer. These
situations incur file-management overhead and thus take
extra time.

The vendor's choice of buffer size, however, isn't the only
thing that influences drive speed. Was the driver written in
fast assembly language or in a slower higher-level language?
Can the driver bypass Apple's not terribly efficient SCSI Man¬

ager? Such factors prevent caching from having a dramatic
effect on retrieval or writing of large data files, like those used
in the benchmarks; the real bottleneck is generally the appli¬
cation or the driver.

If, however, you want to use the erasable optical in place
of a hard disk, caching is still important. The Turbo Cache
utility provided by PLI allows you to set up an area in memory
that holds recently retrieved files and applications and then
set a time delay for writing file changes to disk. This means
you can improve the apparent speed at word processing or
spreadsheet tasks to near-hard-disk quality.

Pinnacle Micro implements a more fundamental approach
in hardware. Pinnacle's $995 Opti-Cache board fortheNuBus,
developed by accelerator specialists Golden Triangle Com¬
puters, combines a high-speed static RAM cache with fast
SCSI circuitry that replaces the Mac's. The theory is that if you
can't always match the buffer size perfectly at least you can
use a much faster buffer. This produces respectable improve¬
ments when backing up a 20MB folder and helps even more
(an improvement of 30 percent) when writing numerous small
files, such as 20 Microsoft Word files. For reading large con¬
tiguous files, the cache does not appear to offer enough extra
speed to justify the cost, but Golden Triangle has announced
new firmware and software that offer still more speed.

What all this means to the con¬
sumer is that all Ricoh-based drives use
cartridges that hold 286MB per side
when formatted. Sony-based drives
can use the same cartridges as the Ri¬
coh-based drives or they can use higher
capacity cartridges that, depending on
vendor-supplied formatting software,
hold up to 325MB per side.

Pinnacle Micro and Alphatronix, for
example, use a 325MB-per-side Sony
format but can still read lower capacity
(308MB) disks. This flexibility makes
the Sony drives a better choice if you
plan to swap cartridges with a dispa¬
rate group of people. And there’s no
price penalty for using higher capac¬
ity cartridges.

Ricoh has announced a hardware
upgrade that will allow Ricoh drives to
read Sony-formatted cartridges. That
way any drive will be able to read any
disk cartridge, no matter how it was
formatted. There is little danger that
you will buy a drive now and be locked
into an obsolete format (as you are, for
example, with Beta videotape as op¬
posed to VHS).

Are They Fast Enough?

In erasable optical drives, the write
process is actually an erase-first-then-
write cycle, so that writing data to the
disk cartridge takes longer than read¬
ing it (see “A Matter of Timing”). This
means you will be happier using an

Qhe specs that
vendors love to quote
don't tell you
much about real-world

performance

erasable optical forstorageand retrieval
than as a substitute for a working hard
disk (the opticals have a fast Open but
a slow Save, so to speak).

Although Sony drives have an intrinsic
speed advantage (2400 rotations per
minute versus Ricoh’s 1800), driver
software can compensate to some ex¬
tent for hardware differences. Mac-

MACW0RLD • MARCH 1990

setra’s Genesis 6000 is a Ricoh-based
drive that competes with the slowest of
the Sony drives. Variations among
drivers depend on the programmer’s
skill in dealing with the details of the
interactions between Apple’s File
Manager and SCSI Manager and the
drive subsystem (see “Speed, Caches,
Benchmarks, and All That”). In gen¬
eral, the specifications vendors love to
quote — for example, access speed and
burst-transfer rate (the maximum data-
transfer rate) — don’t allowyou toguess
much about real-world performance,
mostly because these raw hardware
figures are only elements in a larger
programming scheme.

The benchmarks identify some
standouts in the long list of drives. For
transferring large blocks of files, the
Cirrus 600 from La Cie is the speed
champ, followed by drives from Pin¬
nacle and ProCom. Note the unpre¬
dictable interactions of driver software
with applications by comparing per¬
formance of these three fast drives at
opening PageMaker and Adobe Illus¬
trator files — if most of your work in-

A Matter of
Timing

Measured in
seconds taken to
complete the task

Open PageMaker, Excel, and Illustrator 88

PageMaker

Excel

Illustrator 88

Macsetra Genesis 6000
La Cie Cirrus 600
Pinnacle (Opti-Cache) REO-650
Quantum 80
ProCom HiPerformance
Microtech OR650
Pinnacle REO-650
AGA MacDiscus
FWB HammerDisk600
Relax Optical Plus
PLI (TurboCache) Infinity Optical
Sumo/RSSM600-B
Racet Cosmos 600
PLI Infinity Optical
Alphatronix Macintosh + Inspire
Ocean Tidalwave 650

These timings are intended
to represent typical real-world
tasks for an erasable optical
drive. The top chart gives times
for opening a 1.2MB PageMaker
file, a 300K Excel file, and a 492K
Illustrator 88 file. The middle chart
shows the time to select 751
records from 1349 in a 303K 4th
Dimension database. The bottom
chan indicates the time to copy
20MB of files from a Quantum 80
hard disk, illustrating the
suitability of erasable optical
drives as backup devices.

The unit used for these
tests was a Mac IIx
running System 6.0.2
and Finder 4.1.

4D Search

0 10 20

PLI (TurboCache) Infinity Optical
Macsetra Genesis 6000
PLI Infinity Optical
Quantum 80
Pinnacle (Opti-Cache) REO-650
La Cie Cirrus 600
Ocean Tidalwave 650
Alphatronix Macintosh + Inspire
ProCom HiPerformance
Microtech OR650
AGA MacDiscus
Pinnacle REO-650
FWB HammerDisk600
Sumo/RSSM600-B
Relax Optical Plus
Racet Cosmos 600

20MB Transfer

0 100 200

Quantum 80
La Cie Cirrus 600
Pinnacle (Opti-Cache) REO-650
Pinnacle REO-650
ProCom HiPerformance
AGA MacDiscus
PLI (TurboCache) Infinity Optical
Microtech OR650
PLI Infinity Optical
Macsetra Genesis 6000
Alphatronix Macintosh + Inspire
Ocean Tidalwave 650
FWB HammerDisk600
Sumo/RSSM600-B
Relax Optical Plus
Racet Cosmos 600

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

157

ERASABLE OPTICALS

ERASABLE OPTICALS COMPARED

Company

Product

OEM

Price

Cartridge

price

Formatted

capacity

Works with
all SCSI Macs

Terminator

AG A

MacDiscus

Sony

$6495

$250

308MB

yes

external

Alphatronix

Macintosh + Inspire 600

Sony

$5495

$250

308MB/325MB’

no2

external

Chimera Systems

SMO-S501

Sony

$5200

$225

288MB

no2

internal

Computer Upgrade Corporation

0SR-SM501

Sony

$4695

$180

286MB

yes

selectable

Dolphin Systems

Sonar 600

Sony

$5995

$499

297MB

yes

internal

La Cie

Cirrus 600

Sony

$3999.95

$249

286MB

yes

selectable

Microtech

OR650

Sony

$4795

$299

325MB

no2

selectable

Ocean Microsystems

Tidalwave 650

Sony

$6090

$249

286MB

yes

external

Pinnacle Micro

REO-650

Sony

$4995

$250

308MB/325MB1

no2

external

PLI

Infinity Optical

Sony

$5699

$295

308MB

yes

internal

ProCom Technology

HiPerformance

Sony

$4950

$295

308MB

yes

internal

Summus Computer Systems

LightDisk

Sony

$5495

$250

297MB

yes

external

Deltaic Systems

OptiServer 600

Ricoh

$5399

$250

286MB

yes

external

FWB

Hammer0isk600

Ricoh

$4995

$295

286MB

yes

internal

MacProducts USA

MagicDrive

Ricoh

$3395

$249

286MB

yes

external

Macsetra Technologies International

Genesis 6000

Ricoh

$4995

$250

286MB

yes

internal

Racet Computes

Cosmos 600

Ricoh

$5508

$298

286MB

yes

external

Relax Technology

Optical Plus

Ricoh

$4995

$295

286MB

yes

external

Sumo Systems

RSSM600B

Ricoh

$4700

$260

286MB

yes

selectable

Xyxis Corporation

XY600RW

Ricoh

$4995

$275

287MB

yes

external

Reads high- and low-capacity formatted disks.

2 Does not work with Macintosh Plus.

3 DIP switches are internal.

4 Password protection for partitions.

volves a single application, you might
want to take a real file with you to a
dealer and perform a specific test of
your own.

Performance numbers for backing
up large amounts of data ( 1-2GB) show
erasable opticals to be two to three
times slower than their main competi¬
tors — 8mm video tape drives and 4mm
digital audio tape (see “Backing Up
with Tape Drives "Macworld, Decem¬
ber 1989). But erasable opticals are
much more versatile than tape drives.
An erasable optical can serve as pri¬
mary' storage for applications and
act as a substitute high-capacity hard
disk. For instance, with an erasable
optical, you can rapidly search for indi¬
vidual files.

Trying to Make Themselves Useful

All vendors except Racet provide a
CDEV or INIT file that, when dragged
into the System Folder, makes the Mac
recognize the drive — whether there’s
a cartridge inserted or not. The same

1 58

software lets you select the erasable
optical as the start-up unit from the
Control Panel.

Beyond that, software complete¬
ness varies widely. Ocean and Sumo

Qor backing up
large amounts of data,
erasable opticals
are two to three times

slower than digital
audio tape drives

give you bare formatting; FWB, in
contrast, gives you partitioning, backup,
and security software. PLI includes
its Disk Cache and Disk Optimizer;
Microtech includes DS Backup and
the disk organizer MacTree Plus. La Cie
even includes its SilverServer net¬

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

working software, besides a complete
assortment of utilities.

On a disk this size you are likely to
want partitioning software. When the
space on an erasable optical is parti¬
tioned into several volumes, each vol¬
ume (for example, one for word pro¬
cessing, one for graphics — or alterna¬
tively one for each user on a network)
can be mounted independently. Since
each volume is treated as a separate
hard disk, you can use partitioning to
reduce Finder overhead, calling up vol¬
umes only as they are needed. In net¬
work use, individual users can back up
and protect their hard disks in their
own partitions. La Cie’s Cirrus 600 unit
is a standout in this area, with easy-to-
use partitioning that can be reconfig¬
ured without data loss.

Security software, for encryption
or password protection, is also helpful
in several instances. Passwords, for
example, allow you to assign lockable
partitions to different users on a net¬
work. Since password-protected files

SCSI address
change

Partitioning

Software

Encryption

Software

CDEV/INIT

Software

Backup

Software

Other

Software

Disk Timer
Access Time
(in secs.)

SCSI Evaluator
Read
(in kbps)

SCSI Evaluator

Write
(in kbps)

DIP switches

yes

2009

1602

DIP switches

yes

1866

1435

DIP switches

yes

not tested

DIP switches

yes

not tested

DIP switches

yes

not tested

DIP switches

yes

DS Backup

2107

1792

shareware

DIP switches

yes

MacTree Plus

2009

1611

shareware

button

yes

2128

1862

DIP switches

yes

2579

1597

dial

yes

TurboCache

2117

1661

TurboOptimizer

dial

yes

1854

1170

DIP switches

yes

not tested

pushbutton

yes

not tested

preset

yes

1950

757

button

yes

SmartCache

not tested

shareware

DIP switches 3

yes

1213

667

button

yes

1671

708

button

yes

1950

753

button

yes

1915

749

DIP switches

yes

no*

yes

not tested

can still be read by some utilities, for

you right now. These drives aren’t suit- For the rest of us — users who still

shipping sensitive corporate data files
you might prefer encryption, which
can involve a time investment of a few
minutes per megabyte but offers abso¬
lute security — encrypted files just can’t
be read.

The drives with the best software
also tend to have the best documenta¬
tion (La Cie, FWB, Microtech, and PLI).
Although you probably won’t have to
consult the documentation again once
the disk cartridge is formatted and in
use, you may be bewildered at spend¬
ing $5000 to $6000 for a product that
arrives with merely 12 small pages of
documentation (Sumo) or that no¬
where acknowledges that the device is
an erasable optical drive rather than a
hard disk (ProCom).

Playing Favorites

If you work with libraries of color
graphics, book-length text, or large
databases, you probably need the kind
of capacity an erasable optical gives

able replacements for a fast hard disk
for word processing or database search¬
ing, but for archiving and transporting
large files erasable opticals provide an
effective choice, despite the price of
both drives and media. For Mac users
with several gigabytes of data (several
thousand high-detail color TIFF files,
or several files of sounds for example) ,
erasable opticals aren’t an expensive
novelty but a cost-effective, practical
storage solution. For you, the question
is which erasable optical?

Although this market is still chang¬
ing rapidly, some relative bargains have
emerged. The La Cie unit offers the
leading combina tion of price, software,
and performance. Units from PLI, Pin¬
nacle, and Microtech are a close sec¬
ond to the La Cie unit. Several vendors
(choose your own examples from “Era¬
sable Opticals Compared”) will have
to change their pricing or software
policies, or both, or suffer the conse¬
quences in this competitive market.

have a little headroom left on a 40MB
or even a 20MB hard disk — this tech¬
nology promises to someday provide
big, fast hard disks for less than $1000.
Technology for giving erasable opti¬
cals 6000MB of capacity per cartridge
is being explored, as are speed im¬
provements that will let opticals pass
up conventional Winchester hard
disks. Remarkably enough, Stevejobs,
the man who bet the Apple farm on
icons-and-mice for the Macintosh,
seems to have, once again, correctly
identified a key computer technol¬
ogy of the near future (an erasable
optical is the basic storage for the
Next computer), just a few years
ahead of its time. □

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Charles Seiter is a Macworld contributing
editor active in scientific computing and
the design of instruments

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

159

THE

WORLD
O F

SOLID

MODELING

Beneath the Surface

The graphics capabilities and power of the Macintosh II have long
caught the imagination of design engineers, who were eager to see
serious 3-D CAD packages arrive on the platform. High on engi¬
neers’ wish list was solid-modeling software.

Although the Mac soon caught the imagination of CAD develop¬
ers as well — inspiring a whole selection of CAD programs, many
with 3-D abilities — it wasn’t until 1989 that the first solid modeler
arrived. And at this writing — although more programs are expected
soon — Infinite Graphics’ In-CAD remains the only shipping engi¬
neering and general-purpose solid modeler on the Mac. Deltasoft’s
Origins Solid, and Zoom, developed byAbvent, may be shipping by
the time you read this. Two architectural programs, ArchiCAD and
Architrion, also offer solid-modeling features.

What Is Solid Modeling?

Until In-CAD showed up, all Mac 3-D modelers were either wire¬
frame modelers or surface modelers.

Wire-frame representation is still the most common 3-D model¬
ing method. Wire-frame modelers are easy to work with and eco¬
nomical on memory. On the other hand, wire-frame drawings don’t
look realistic and often produce visual ambiguity, since all edges
are visible simultaneously. No lines, not even those at the back of
the current view, are hidden.

Surface modelers remove hidden lines and surfaces, showing
only the surfaces facing the viewer. Color, shading, and texturing

In the real world,
objects are made up
of more than visible
surfaces and edges.
They are solid, and
often have complex
interiors. Solid-mod¬
eling CAD software
gives design engi¬
neers and others the
power to go beyond
edge dimensions and
beneath the surface
in describing and
simulating real-world
objects.

BY SASSAN KHOUBYARI

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

161

BENEATH THE SURFACE

can add realism to a picture, which
makes surface models especially useful
for defining complex shapes. The in¬
formation from both a solid model and
a surface model can be used in numeri¬
cally controlled programming applica¬
tions to provide data to drive an auto¬
mated milling machine.

At first glance, it’s hard to distin¬
guish surface models from solid models.
The difference lies in how the models
can be handled. Surface models pro¬
vide information only about the edges
and faces of an object. They can de¬
scribe the interior of the object only
where the designer has painstakingly
created a cross-sectional view.

Because a solid model is built from
solid geometric shapes, it can provide
information about any point on, above,
or below the surface. The designer can
cut away a portion of the object at any
point and angle, and the modeler auto¬
matically reveals internal details. For
example, a cutaway might be used to
display an engine’s workings. A vertical
cross section of the cylinders would
show the pistons as rectangular shapes
within the cylinders and their position
in the rotation of the cam. A horizontal
cross section through the engine head
would show the pistons as circles, within
the circles of the cylinders.

By contrast, with a surface mod¬
eler, cross sections of any but very
simple objects are difficult at best. If
you cut open a complex object, a sur¬
face modeler — which deals only in
surfaces, or shells — has no way of
knowing what to do with the shapes it
cuts open. It sees a lot of lines and
doesn’t know whether to render
them as insides or outsides. You have
to go through and individually define
surfaces. Even then it’s easy to drop a
stitch, leaving some unclosed lines or
other stray data floating about, and end
up with ambiguous surfaces or inaccu¬
racies. With a solid modeler, if a part
doesn’t seem right, it’s because of a
design mistake, not because you’ve
entered insufficient data.

Solid modelers also give you the
ability to take space out of an object,
which means designers can design
certain types of objects much more
quickly. For example, in a numeri¬
cally controlled milling machine ap¬
plication, if the designer wants to drill
several ‘/2-inch holes 1 inch apart on

|t first glance,
it's hard to

distinguish

surface models from
solid models

either side of a cylinder, the solid
modeler actually removes the volume
of the holes from the design model. In
a surface modeler, there’s no such
thing as a cylinder, and you can’t just
poke holes in the skin of one. You’d
have to create the holes, place them,
and then go back and recreate the skin
of the cylinder, with holes this time,
and throw away the original cylinder.

Designers working with solid
modelers use geometric primitives to
define an object’s shape; they then
assign such properties as weight,
mass, and material type to the shapes
they’ve created. This enables the de¬
signer or engineer to test predictions
about an object and detect flaws with¬
out producing a physical prototype.
Solid-modeling programs typically
have features for performing mass-
properties calculations. They can cal¬
culate an object’s weight, mass, cen¬
ter of gravity, moment of inertia, and
surface area, as well as check for
interference between moving parts.

For more elaborate analysis, a sol¬
id model can be exported to a finite-
element analysis (FEA) program, where
the model can be used in various
simulation applications. The contours
and structural supports of an airplane
wing or auto body, for example, could

be analyzed for performance at differ¬
ent potential speeds. By manipulating
a solid model design in the safe envi¬
ronment ofthecomputerscreen, prob¬
lems can be detected early on or valid
performance can be demonstrated to
justify building a working prototype.

Types of Solid Modelers

While the choice of solid-modeling
packages for the Mac is currently small,
knowing a few things about the differ¬
ent types of solid modelers that exist
on other platforms will help you to
evaluate new Mac programs as they
become available.

Current solid-modeling programs
use one or more of several techniques
to perform their functions. The tech¬
niques used in a particular package
can make a significant difference in
its speed, performance, and memory
requirements.

■ Constructive solids geometry >
(CSG) is the earliest and most widely
used modeling technique in industrial
CAD applications. CSG modelers are
very powerful, but they can be slow.

CSG modelers use geometric
building blocks, which are known as
primitives, to construct objects. The
modeler assembles primitives (boxes,
cones, cylinders, spheres, wedges, tori)
into a design object through a series of
Boolean operations (union, intersec¬
tion, subtraction) and uniary opera¬
tions (copying, mirroring, scaling,
transforming). The program repre¬
sents the design object information on
a binary tree, with each branch hold¬
ing a set of primitives, and each node
containing a set operation. A pencil, for
example might be represented as the
union of a cylinder and a cone (see
“Reading the Tree”).

Inside Looking Out
Architrion's
volumetric
database enables
you to look through
openings, like this
window. The
shadows are not
painted, but are
cast by a light
source outdoors.

1i2

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

RICHARD MTOR

■ Boundary representation (B-
rep) defines solid objects by size and
orientation of edges and surfaces. B-
rep modelers understand a solid as a
hierarchical series of segments, each
bounded by its edge and terminated
by its vertices. A solid boundary is gen¬
erated by the union of all the faces
forming the solid. B-rep modelers are
faster than CSG modelers, but are not
as efficient at representing complex
parts and need much more data stor¬
age than a CSG system. For example, to
store a cube shape, a CSG system need
record only the name of the primitive,
its size, and its orientation. The B-rep
system must store data on the size and
orientation of 12 edges and 6 faces, a
total of 18 elements.

■ Hybrid solid modelers are the
most common type used today. They
combine both B-rep data and CSG
Boolean tree data to define an object
in great detail.

m Nonuniform rational B-splines
(nurbs) are a newer technique, not
available in any Mac solid modeler.
Nurbs modelers use a B-spline mesh
to represent surface geometry. They
are computation-intensive, but effec¬
tive for defining complex surface con¬
tours, such as aircraft wings.

Solid Modeling for the Mac

■ In-CAD, from Infinite Graphics in¬
cludes 2-D drafting together with a
constructive solids geometry model¬
ing program. In-CAD is a true CSG
modeling system, using geometric
primitives and Boolean operations to
create objects. In-CAD also lets the
designer extrude a 2-D shape and save
the object as a user-defined primitive.

Like the better MS-DOS modelers,
In-CAD’s CSG modeler maintains a live
tree structure of Boolean operations,
which means that all past operations
are continually available for editing. A
message window displays information
about the object under construction
and its position on the Boolean tree,
together with the object’s size, loca¬
tion, and orientation. If you change
one of the object’s primitives, the sys¬
tem automatically updates the infor¬
mation on the live tree structure.

For example, if you change the
dimensions of a box in the middle of a
complex object, the CSG tree structure
automatically updates the rest of the

DON'T COUNT OUT THE
WORKSTATIONS

Hhile the Mac has proved able to provide solid-modeling capabilities to
many designers and engineers, Apple's foothold in the solid-modeling
marketplace is far from secure. Solid modelers are speed-hungry pro¬
grams. To advance in the solid-modeling-platform competition, Apple will
need to provide faster, more powerful machines.

Most of today's solid modeling is still being done on workstations, which
provide the kind of computing power required to handle complex designs and
real-time solid-modeling programs. Until now, the high price of such worksta¬
tions has kept them out of reach for many smaller architectural and engineer¬
ing firms, but that may be changing. At the same time as personal computers
are growing ever more powerful, workstations are getting cheaper.

Silicon Graphics, for example, is a leading manufacturer of workstations.
In October of 1988 it introduced the Personal IRIS workstation, which runs at
10 MIPS (million instructions per second) and has a built-in 3-D graphics
processor. Entry-level prices begin at under $16,000.

Silicon Graphics achieves its goal of providing a high-powered workstation
for under $20,000 as a result of two major design features: RISC architecture
and custom graphics chips. The 32-bit RISC-based CPU, rated at 1 0 MIPS, is able
to handle the thousands of calculations and processes per second required to
operate in real-time mode. The graphics chips support color images approach¬
ing photographic quality and provide redraw speeds that allow smooth, real¬
time motion of complex objects on the screen. For example, an architect can give
a walk-through tour of a solid model of a new building design. The client can see
how rooms and passageways will look from different angles, under different
lighting, and with different furnishings.

Personal IRIS has a UNIX operating system and performs tasks through a
series of windows. It provides PC emulation through a DOS window and can run
software compatible with DOS 3.3 or greater. A point-and-click, icon-based user
interface is also available. Personal IRIS is software compatible with Silicon
Graphics' 4D line of workstations. Software for the 4D 3.0 operating system can
be ported over to run on the Personal IRIS workstation.

The Personal IRIS has attracted the attention of a number of software
developers. CadKey, a popular PC-based 3-D CAD developer, offers its solid¬
modeling package, CadKey Solids/UX, to run on the Personal IRIS. PDA Engi¬
neering and Prime Computer both offer sophisticated, high-level solid¬
modeling programs as well. The competition between low-end workstations
and high-end PC and Mac microcomputers is just beginning. Silicon Graphics
hopes to soon break the $10,000 price barrier for workstations.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

1S3

BENEATH THE SURFACE

Boolean operations, restructuring the
object so that all the parts maintain the
same relation to the box as they had
before. In a surface modeler, if you
make one part bigger, for example, it
extends right into any parts next to it.

To see the interior of an object in
In-C/VD, you select a plane in space and
slice it through the object in the iso¬
metric view. In-CAD removes hidden
lines to show the correct shape and
details of the interior at the cross-sec¬
tional plane. In-CAD’s cross-sectioning
features are effective but unintuitive.

In-CAD shades colored objects by
ray tracing rather than using faceted
shading techniques common in many
PC solid modelers. Faceted shading is
generally faster than ray tracing but
gives the object a paneled appearance.
Ray tracing provides perspective and
depth, giving the object a more natu¬
ral shaded appearance.

Mike Hiens, an aerospace engineer
at NASA’s Flight Equipment Energy
Research Center (Moffett Field, Cali¬
fornia) is an experienced In-CAD user.
He notes that even though In-CAD’s
more advanced shading method is
slow, it’s acceptable for his applica-

High Press Assembly
Origins' ability to provide true hidden-line
removal enables it to reflect object interaction
within designs, even if the objects are within,
behind, or beneath one another.

ti< >ns. Hiens uses In-CAD to create solid
models of small mechanical parts and
says that the program’s mass-property
calculation can quickly show such
things as how the center of gravity of
a part shifts as the weight of the assem¬
bly is reduced in the redesigning pro¬
cess. “There is no need to physically
build the model anymore,” Hiens says.

In-CAD’s mass properties calcula¬
tions include surface area, volume,
center of gravity, moments of inertia,

164

and radius of gyration. In-CAD also
provides good interference checking
capabilities. This lets the designer check
for interference and clearance of mov¬
ing parts, and closeness of fit between
parts in general.

In-CAD imports and exports IGES,
PICT, Clipboard, and DXF formats. At
this writing, Infinite Graphics was plan¬
ning to release a new version of In-
CAD; with this and future upgrades,
the company plans to challenge the
capabilities of many of the solid¬
modeling systems available for DOS
users. But even in its current form, In-
CAD offers a major step up for those
designers and engineers already estab¬
lished in CAD on the Mac. It also pro¬
vides an easy-to-use introduction to
solid-modeling for newcomers.

■ Origins, from Deltasoft, is an¬
other high-end CAD program for the
Mac. Origins is primarily a 3-D surface
modeler, but the company is offering
another package called Origins Solid
that is scheduled for release in late ’89,
that provides solid primitives and
Boolean operations with limited mass
property calculations.

Origins offers bezier surfaces,
bezier ruled surfaces, elliptical surfaces,
and other complex surface-generation
techniques. When Origins Solid comes
out, designers will be able to take ad¬
vantage of Origin’s tools to fashion
sophisticated parts, which they can
then turn into solid models.

Deltasoft claims that the Origins
database can easily be used by other
solid-modeling systems. An IGES trans¬
lator can port the database to FEA soft¬
ware such as Inertia from Cumberland
Technology Park and Cosmos/M from
Structural Research Analysis Corpora¬
tion (SRAC). The Origins database can
even be ported to mainframe graphics
systems and used with CSG and B-rep
modelers. I was not able to test this
capability, but it means the Mac could
be used as a low-end workstation, sav¬
ing time and money on expensive sta¬
tions. (This applies to In-CAD as well.)

Origins Solid uses the hybrid
modeling approach together with a
nurbs geometry setup. It will also
offer Boolean features to perform
such functions as removing specified
volumes from an object.

Origins and Origins Solid were
designed from the ground up specifi¬

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

cally for the Macintosh. Unlike some of
the available high-end CAD packages
such as AutoCAD, which were origi¬
nally created for MS-DOS machines,
the Origins interface follows the full
Mac look-and-feel user interface.

Deltasoft also expects to offer a
finite-element analysis package early
in 1990. This package will work with
Origins Solids’ database and can assure
database compatibility from the Ori¬
gins Solid and the FFA program

■ Zoom was developed by Abvent;
the French company was still looking
for an American distributor when this
article was written. Zoom offers solid-
object creation and Boolean opera¬
tions such as addition, subtraction,
and intersection of 3-D objects. Zoom
uses an iconic user interface setup that
is customizable by the users.

Similar to In-CAD, Zoom lets a
designer see the model in' up to four
views in multiple windows simultane¬
ously. Zoom’s model creation in real-
world coordinates works in any win¬
dow or view (even perspective). You
can also assign up to 128 building
materials to the components of each
model or file.

AEC Applications

In architectural design, Boolean opera¬
tions are useful for inserting such com¬
ponents as doors into existing walls.
Like mechanical engineers, who take
advantage ofall the information stored
in a solid modeler database, architects
also benefit from finite-element analy¬
sis to solve complex problems.

For example, solid-modeling makes
structural analysis easier and more
accurate than traditional methods.
One problem that held architects back
from using FEA before solid-modeling
programs became available was the
enormous amount of data that had to
be entered to build a finite-element
model, such as nodal location of struc¬
tural member end points, the loading
conditions, anti the boundary condi¬
tions of each nodal point.

■ ArchiCAD, from Graphisoft and
Architrion from Gimeor are two excel¬
lent architectural CAD packages, anti
each provides solid-modeling objects
and operations. For example, Archi¬
CAD offers a built-in library containing
3-D solid objects and construction ele¬
ments (doors, windows, furniture)

Reading the Tree

Cylinder ( + )

Constructive solids

geometry modelers like In-CAD use

a binary tree to represent design information.

along with the complex 3-D opera¬
tions needed to present a realistic
model of a building. ArchiCAD pro¬
vides Boolean operations that enable
you to create “see-through” openings
in solid walls, roofs, and slabs.

ArchiCAD offers a bill-of-materials
function for its predefined structural
building elements. The bill-of-materi¬
als lists all materials, costs, and other
related information, such as a subcon¬
tractor’s name, for each element.

■ Architrion comprises three mod¬
ules; 2-D, 3-D, and the Quantifier. At
the heart of the program are a 3-D
database and a volumetric algorithm
that provides the solid-modeling data.

The Quantifier module is a numeric
data-extraction tool that produces
overall-quantity or space-by-space
analysis of your design. Analyses in¬
clude plan areas, volumes (enclosed
space, wall, and slab volumes), surface
area, net-to-gross ratio, and a bill of all
3-D elements used in creating each
space. The program imports and ex¬
ports DXF format.

A Solid Choice

A solid modeler running on a micro¬
computer such as the Mac cannot de¬
liver the capabilities and functions of a
minicomputer or mainframe. One of
the greatest limitations for the Mac or

PCs in general is processing speed.
Operations that seem instantaneous
on a large system can take several sec¬
onds to perform on a Mac. And there
is a practical limitation to the size of
problems that a microcomputer can
solve. The microcomputer, however,
still offers great potential as an effec¬
tive and economical platform for
small-scale design and manufacture.
Solid modeling can replace the paper
or clay models and prototypes that are
used in the early design phases.

Very soon we’ll see more high-end
CAD packages with solid-modeling
abilities offered for the Mac. For users
who demand a moderate level of
complexity, the current packages can
satisfy most of the demands of solid¬
modeling applications. And these pack¬
ages will gain more powerful features
as they grow into maturity.

Others, who would like to have
more options to choose from, may
consider waiting a few months to see
what new offerings come to the market
for solid-modeling on the Mac. □

See Where To Buy for contact information.

Sassan Khoubyari is a senior CAD software
engineer at WIT and a designer of Prime-
Design, a workstation solid-modeler
package

Two Views
Infinite Graphics'
In-CAD offers
both isometric
drawings with
hidden-line
removal, and
shaded ray
tracing.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

165

ood evening. I've been asked to speak to you about presentation programs — software devoted
exclusively to creating and structuring slide shows for talks just tike this one.

As you know , presentations are a staple of corporate life. Everyone who tries to pitch an
idea — to a client , to another group in the company , to shareholders — makes a presentation.
A casual talk might include an overhead projector , using transparencies to illustrate the
speaker's points. More formal presentations use 35mm slides; the room is dark and the
graphics must be top-notch. And lately, more and more presentations are made either on the

Macintosh screen or on a projected image of it.

Most of the programs we’ll be examining gen¬
erate all three kinds of presentations — transpar¬
encies, slides, and on-screen shows. (Unless your
company has a film recorder in-house, you have
to send your files to an output service if you want
them transformed into slides and transparen¬
cies.) Most of these programs also print speaker’s
notes and audience handouts. And the best ones
help keep yourcolors appealing and yourgraphics
consistent from slide to slide.

All the programs you’ll be seeing are in at least
their second incarnation: PowerPoint 2.01, CA-
Cricket Presents 2.0, Aldus Persuasion 2.0, and
More II 2.0. We’ll also see what a couple of new¬
comers have to offer: MacDraw II 1.1 and some¬
thing called Visual Business No. 5 1.02. (Another
contender, Standout, was withdrawn from our
survey. Its maker, Letraset, says that a much-en¬
hanced new product is being readied for release.)

Let’s take a look at the options. May I have the
first slide, please?

The Starting Point

The first dedicated presentation program was
PowerPoint. While no longer state-of-the-art, it’s
still the model on which most of the other pro¬
grams are based.

On the screen, you see a blank frame or slide.
You add text and graphics to one slide at a time

BY D A V I

using MacDraw-type tools. If you want graphs or
fancier illustrations, you paste them in from other
programs; if you want to use an outliner to orga¬
nize your thoughts, go buy one. PowerPoint is
used primarily for assembling a show’s compo¬
nents, not for generating them.

As you create slides, you can flip to a Slide
Sorter view, where you see your slides in min¬
iature. In this view, you can drag slides to re¬
arrange them. You can also copy them and
paste them into other presentations.

Color Me Quick

In light of the fact that you can choose from among
millions of colors on a Mac II, a presentation
program should suggest some appropriate color
sets that work well together. This is PowerPoint’s
strength: its hierarchical color-selection process
is excellent. First, you select a background color
for your slides. PowerPoint now displays a second
palette, showing a selection of foreground colors
that contrast well with that background. Next,
you’re presented with a collection of minipal¬
ettes, each showing six accent colors. In other
words, the program adjusts its available palettes so
that you always have attractive, compatible colors
available for any element you create.

Like most of the presentation programs,
PowerPoint lets you specify a graduated fill for
the background of your slide, where the color of

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167

HERE'S THE PITCH

Visual Business
No . 5

Visual Business
No. 5 transforms
standard charts
into breathtaking
ones with its
shading, per¬
spective, and
3-D commands.

Persuasion
An outliner, draw¬
ing tools, and
charting tools —
Persuasion has
everything you
need to create a
presentation
from scratch.

MacDrawll
By extending its
layering features,
MacDraw II lets
you create and
organize slides for
presentations.

the background changes smoothly, say, from a
sky blue at the top to a deep blue at the bottom.
These graduated fills can be stunning, and they
make your presentations look extremely profes¬
sional. PowerPoint even lets you specify the
angle and placement of the shading. For example,
it will shade from one color to another diagonally
or horizontally, if you wish.

Not Much Style

PowerPoint takes some tentative steps toward
automating the slide-creating process. For ex¬
ample, you can specify a default font, size, and
color. You can also place static elements such as

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Illustrate conceptually or to scale

a logo on the Slide Master, so that these elements
appear in the same place on every slide.

But if you decide to change the look of your
presentation, you have to change the font, align¬
ment, and location of every text block on every
slide by hand. Multiply this inconvenience by the
number of presentations you'll be making, and
you start to see the program’s most fundamental
limitation: PowerPoint is not designed for revis¬
ing your presentations.

Examples abound. What if after creating a
presentation for display on a Mac screen, you
now want to convert the frames to 35mm slides?
You’ll have to adjust the position of every graphic
element on every slide by hand because Power¬
Point doesn’t automatically compensate for the
change in frame dimensions. What if you need to
change some figures in a graph? You’ll have to go
back to Excel to make the revisions and reimport
the graph.

If the flexibility of PowerPoint’s color sys¬
tem were evident in every feature, PowerPoint
would be tough to beat. As it is, PowerPoint is
the simplest but most limited program on the
market. And take note, on-screen presenters — it
offers no dissolves or other transitional effects.
Next slide, please.

The Cricket Ticket

The first substantial advantage Cricket Presents
has over PowerPoint is under the Apple menu —
Acta, an outliner desk accessory that comes with
the program. Constructing your presentation in
an outliner makes a world of difference; your
entire talk is visible at once and can be easily re¬
structured. Moreover, many people find working
in an outliner much more spontaneous than
working with slides. Instead of focusing on the
finished artwork at every step, you can focus on
the content of your presentation.

When you’re finished, Cricket Presents im¬
ports the Acta outline, automatically transform¬
ing each main heading into a slide title and each
subheading into a bulleted item on the slide.

Surely Template

Cricket Presents adds another useful dimension
with its template system. In essence, a Cricket
Presents template is a canned graphic design,
complete with preformatted text blocks and
graphic accents. Slap this ready-touse graphics
layout onto the slides, and when you import the
Acta outline, the slide show is completely format¬
ted, attractively laid out, and requires only minor
adjustments.

Everything else about Cricket Presents is es¬
sentially the same as PowerPoint. It can print out
speaker’s notes and audience handouts; it can
create transparencies, slides, or on-screen pre¬
sentations (with a choice of transition effects be-

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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

tween screens); and it offers its own variation of
PowerPoint’s color-scheme system.

Unfortunately, the drawbacks are the same,
too: neither the Acta outline, the master slide, nor
the Cricket templates are dynamically linked to
the actual presentation. Once again, you're con¬
demned to change every slide individually if you
decide to change a font or layout. You’d think that
you could just apply a new template to the pre¬
sentation and the program would maintain the
actual text while applying the new formatting.
Instead, the program simply superimposes the
new template over your existing slides, complete
with dummy text like “48 PT. BOLD TITLE.”

When you build a show, moreover, Cricket
Presents is extremely particular about the se¬
quence of events. The manual is full of dire warn¬
ings: Don’t import the outline before applying the
template! Don’t specify the page size after enter-
ingtext! Don’t load a color palette before applying
a template! It’s easy to become so preoccupied
with this sequence that you lose the sense of
spontaneity and creativity provided by the Acta
outliner. Next slide, please.

Sweet Persuasion

Aid us Persuasion has clearly been designed to con¬
nect everything in a presentation interactively. If
the logo, color scheme, screen size, transparency
orientation, chart data, or audience makeup
changes, you just change the presentation in one
place. Persuasion takes care of the dirty work.

This principle begins with Persuasion’s ele¬
gant built-in outliner, which lets you do things
that are impossible in other outliners. For ex¬
ample, you can drag a high-level heading in be¬
tween two lower ones without dragging its subor¬
dinate headings along with it. The real beauty of
the outliner, however, is that as you create an out¬
line, you’re simultaneously creating slides; there’s
no importing or converting. And you can edit text
either in the outline or directly on the slide.

Persuasion ensures the integrity of a presen¬
tation’s graphics with its AutoTemplate system. At
first, AutoTemplates seem akin to Cricket Pre¬
sents’ templates: each is a formatted, color-coordi¬
nated, attractively designed dummy slide. But
there’s a dramatic difference. You can apply an
AutoTemplate at any time during the presenta¬
tion’s life cycle. You can even change AutoTem-
plates in the middle of designing a presentation;
the program will reformat and readjust all the
slides so that they work well with the new de¬
sign. The result: an addictive what-if power for
trying out different looks for your show.

Masters of the Universe

Furthermore, you can modify the AutoTemplate
within your presentation. For example, suppose
you’ve created a 30-slide show, and you decide

that the title of each slide should be italicized.
Just choose Slide Master from the View menu and
Persuasion displays a mock-up of a slide with
“This is a Title Placeholder” where the title should
be. Make changes to its formatting or placement
and return to your slides. All 30 have been instant¬
ly reformatted.

There is much more to say about Persuasion.
Its built-in charting powers are impressive; you
can ungroup the elements of a chart, change
their colors, drag the slices of a pie chart around,
and soon. Persuasion’s graphics tools almost out-
draw MacDraw. For example, Persuasion fea¬
tures a Regroup command that remembers the
grouping of objects even after they have been
ungrouped and rearranged. The program imports
PowerPoint presentations, and imports and ex-

PowerPoint
PowerPoint is an
excellent tool for
combining pre¬
created elements
into a presentation.
The color scheme
suggestion feature
helps you add color
to your slides
and — at the same
time — ensures that
those colors look
good.

MORE BANG FOR LESS BUCKS

BowerPoint, $395, Aldus Persuasion, $495 — there must be a
less expensive way to put on a slide show.

As a matter of fact, there is. Consider HyperCard, for ex¬
ample. Your on-screen slides will be small — and in black and
white — but you have a number of nifty transitions (dissolves, vene-
tian-blind effects, and so on) to choose from. To make the process
easier, get the Slide Show Maker stack from Heizer Software. It's
only $10, and it lets you specify a transitional effect and timing for
each card. If you need color and large-screen support, don't forget
about SuperCard, priced at $199, or Plus, $149.

Believe it or not, the ancestor of the presentation programs.
Slide Show Magician, is still alive and kicking. You create all the
graphics in other programs; Slide Show Magician simply assem¬
bles them and runs the slide show, letting you add titles, HyperCard-
like buttons, and even subliminal messages. It's black and white; its
interface is awful; and it's sorely in need of an overhaul. But it's only
$59.95, and — by golly — it actually works.

If you're resourceful, you can come up with other ways of
creating slide shows using software you already own. You might
program an Excel macro to display each of several charts for a cer¬
tain number of seconds, for example; or buy Individual Software's
terrific 101 Macros Plus for Excel ($69.95), which includes just
such a macro.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

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HERE'S THE PITCH

ports Acta and More outlines.

You may be getting the impression that Per¬
suasion is a complex, powerful program. You’re
right. It’s a lot to learn. In Persuasion 2.0, Aldus has
added a master master called the Background
master. This is a master slide that lurks behind any
slide master, and on which you can place a logo (or
other element) that will appear on every single
slide, regardless of its type (text slide, chart slide,
and so on). What’s more, you can create multiple
slide masters and even multiple Background mas¬
ters. This complexity — Aldus would say flexibil¬
ity — is a little daunting.

Fortunately, you can ignore all of this. You can
produce an absolutely beautiful presentation in
half an hour using Persuasion’s outliner and one of
its superb AutoTemplates without ever concern¬
ing yourself with the program’s more complex
inner workings.

CA-Cricket Presents
CA-Cricket Presents
comes with templates
that help you save
time when you're
making slides. When
you import an Acta
outline, the template
formats the text and
adds graphics
flourishes too.

Bermuda
St. Martin
Cancun

St. Thomas
Guadeloupe

These three PowerPoint-type packages illus¬
trate one very successful approach to presen¬
tation building. But there are other approaches.
Let’s see how they work. Next slide.

It's a More

More II is primarily an outlining program — a very
good one. Some business people use it so much
that it becomes an integral part of their workday.
The program includes phone dialing and a calen¬
dar system and can even serve as an outliner-
based word processor. But there’s more to More II.

Where Persuasion is a presentation program
with a strong built-in outliner, More II is an outlin¬
ing program with a respectable presentation
module. Its greatest asset is that it offers true
style sheets for each presentation. For example,
you can change the color of all bulleted items on
all your slides with a single command. Because

More’s style sheets are cryptic lines of text in a
dialog box, they’re not as easy to use as Persua¬
sion’s AutoTemplates — but they’re a blessing
nonetheless.

Yet More II isn’t quite as fully developed as its
strictly-presentation-program competitors. For
example, you can’t edit the text of slides except in
the outliner. So if you notice a spelling error on a
slide, you have to flip back to the outline view to
correct it. There’s no slide-sorter view. And you
can only format text on each slide on a text-block
basis — not on a character-by-character basis.

Otherw ise, More IPs presentation features are
comparable to those in, say, PowerPoint. There’s
a spelling checker, but no charting; a master slide,
but no graphic-design templates; full color
capabilities, but no ready-to-go color schemes. In
general, you can create slides every bit as impres¬
sive as those generated by other programs — but
More II leaves more of the work to you.

More II is primarily worth considering if you
heed to produce on-screen presentations. In
addition to its collection of fades, dissolves, and
other transitional effects, More II can operate
two monitors simultaneously. In other words,
you can view your notes (and the menu bar) on
your private monitor, while the audience views
your presentation on another.

So far, we’ve examined several programs at¬
tempting to be all things to all people. But there
are other programs that may be everything to
small groups of people. May we have the next
slide, please?

Slides of MacDraw

You’re probably wondering what MacDraw is
doing in a discussion of presentation software.
You’d be surprised — the latest version of MacDraw
is now being billed as a presentation program.

MacDraw II’s slide-making skills are an exten¬
sion of the program’s layering capability; in es¬
sence, you can place a different slide on each
layer. Like dedicated presentation programs,
MacDraw II has a master layer where you can place
static elements that appear on every slide.

As a presentation program, MacDraw is only a
shadow of its dedicated rivals. There are no tem¬
plates, no style sheets, and — of course — no out-

' You must use the proprietary fonts included to take advantage of No 5's
text effects

1 Acta outliner, a desk accessory, is included (but not integral to the
program)

’ In separate Output Manager program

4 For use when slide format changes (from transparency to 35mm, for
example).

* Basic four tools are line, rectangle, rounded rectangle, and ellipse

• Not the Shadow style — rather, an actual shadow offset slightly from the
characters

170

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

PRESENTING.. .FEATURES

Aldus

Persuasion 2.0

Claris

MacDrawll 1.1

Computer Associates
CA-Cricket Presents 2.0

Microsoft
PowerPoint 2.01

Symantec

More II 2.0

Visual Business Systems
VB No. 5 1.02

Price

$495

$399

$495

$395

S395

Extra software included

clip art

Acta

SmartScrap

Oversize fonts included

•

• 1

Built-in outliner

•

• 2

•

Slide sorter

•

• 3

Online help

•

Service bureau driver included

Autographix

Genigraphix

Magicorp

Automatic graphics adjustment4

•

Number of reduction levels

Number of enlargement levels

Speaker's notes and handouts

•

Imported file formats

Acta, More 1,

PICT, PICT2

EPS, PICT, PICT2,

PICT2,

Word 3,

PICT, SYLK, EPS

MacWrite 4.5, PICT,

SYLK, MacPaint, Acta

MacPaint,

MacWrite 4.5,

PICT2, EPS, WKS,

EPS

ThinkTank, text, EPS,

text, PowerPoint

PICT, PICT2,

(via Scrapbook)

MacPaint

Exported file formats

PICT, Scrapbook,

PICT, PICT2

Scrapbook

Word 3, MacWrite

PICT, SYLK

Acta, More 1 , text

4.5, ThinkTank, text,

EPS, PICT, MacPaint

GRAPHICS

Master slide layer

•

Graduated background color

•

Automatic graphics templates

•

Automatic color schemes

•

Align Objects command

•

Group Objects command

•

Drawing tools5

basic four, arc.

basic four, arc,

basic four

basic four, diamond.

freehand, polygon

freehand

diamond, parallelogram,

parallelogram

polygon, freehand,

framer

GRAPHING

n/a

Automatic charting capability

•

Chart types

hundreds

3-D charts

•

Exploding pie charts

•

Tables

•

Organizational charts

•

TEXT

Tab stops

•

Leading control

•

Search and replace

•

True shadow text6 •

Manual kerning

•

Spelling checker

•

Thesaurus

•

Rotated text

•

Perspective text

•

ON-SCREEN PRESENTATIONS

Transition effects

n/a

Individual slide timing

•

Dual monitor support

•

Automated builds on one slide

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HERE’S THE PITCH

liner. You can’t even create on-screen presenta¬
tions, because you can’t hide MacDraw’s menu
bars and palettes. Nevertheless, MacDraw is a
much better graphics program than most of the
presentation packages. It might be a good candi¬
date for a presentation of technical or architec¬
tural graphics, for example.

Don’t consider MacDraw for its slide-making
skills alone. But keep the program’s secret extra
talent in mind when you are looking foragraphics
program.

Funny Business No. 5

Finally, there’s a strange, nifty program called Vis¬
ual Business No. 5, which runs only on the Mac II
series. Strange, because it does so little: it creates
business-chart slides, one at a time. Nifty, because
it creates them unbelievably well. (For more on
Visual Business No. 5, s ee Reviews, this issue.)

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Most presentation
slides are text
slides. More trans¬
forms an outline
into bullet or tree
charts, and pro¬
vides a number of
transitional effects
for on-screen
presentations.

First you choose a background color. The
oddball manual suggests you “use a dark blue
background, unless you are a master of color the¬
ory and the related psychology.” Here’s hoping
that you ignore that advice, however, because No.
5 allows you to create breathtaking graduated
color backgrounds.

Next, you enter data in a small spreadsheet,
and the program graphs it. You choose the chart
type from a menu. Then choose the 3-D com¬
mand to make the chan three-dimensional, and
the magic begins. Using four little buttons, you
can rotate the graph in any dimension — spin it all
the way around, ifyou want — and the program re¬
draws it, in full color and perfect perspective. Even
the graph’s text labels go along for the 3-D ride,
like the opening credits in Star Wars.

The program doesn’t do much else. A com¬
panion program, Output Manager, can send your

slides to assorted output devices (including the
screen, if you want to make a slide show). But
probably the best use of No. 5 is to export the
finished charts to your main presentation program
in color PICT format. Too bad you'll have to pay
$395 for that privilege.

If Visual Business No. 5 sounds appealing,
you should also investigate a presentation chart¬
ing program that we received too late to review
— DeltaGraph, from DeltaPoint, which offers addi¬
tional charting capabilities and costs considerably
less. Last slide, please.

Presentation Possibilities

If you make a lot of presentations, it’s time to
consider the persuasive arguments of these new
programs. PowerPoint, the granddaddy of them
all, somehow continues to do well in the market¬
place, despite the fact that it’s nowhere near as
capable as its rivals. If you add an outliner, chart¬
plotting features, and graphic-design templates
to PowerPoint, you have Cricket Presents. Throw
in flexibility, intelligence, and powerful style¬
sheet-like templates, and you have Aldus Persua¬
sion — the Cadillac of the presentation programs.
If you’re willing to spend some time with Persua¬
sion’s manual, you’ll be rewarded with the ability
to update the look, size, or formatting of your
entire presentation with a single change.

In the not-really-presentation-programs cate¬
gory, More II is particularly attractive. A superb
organizer and outliner, its presentation capabili¬
ties are enough for many kinds of presentations,
especially for on-screen and interactive during-
the-meeting shows. MacDraw isn’t really a pre¬
sentation program at all, but its new slide features
will be very useful to more than a few designers
and artists. And finally, little Visual Business No. 5
does some uncanny things with three-dimensional
graphs. It’s not much good as a presentation pro¬
gram, but those charts are sensational.

I n some ways, choosing between presen tatic >n
programs is like counting features. Before you
buy, be sure to determine which product has the
features you need (see “Presenting . . . Features”).
Remember, though, the one feature you won’t
find in any of the programs is a Transform-
Boring-Speech command. The software gets your
thoughts into finished form more quickly. The rest
is still up to you.

Lights, please. Any questions? □

See Where to Buy for contact informatk >n.

David Pogue, a Macworld contributing editor hi es in
New York City He recently moved into a co-op
apartment, using a Macintosh presentation to
corn ince the admissions hoard that he 's a
decent sort of fellow.

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REVIEWS

Video Production Boards for the Mac II

COLORSPACE Ili 3.0

AND

COLORSPACE FX3.0

Pros: Provides a nearly complete
hardware video package; displays full¬
screen, real-time video on Apple monitor;
displays video and captures frames
in 24-bit color. Cons: Expensive;
difficult to install; poor documentation.

Company: Mass Microsystems.
Requires: Mac II; 2MB; Apple or Multi¬
sync color monitor. List price: Color-
Space Ili $2299; ColorSpace FX $3499;
monitor-specific cable $1 00.

♦ There are some very good
reasons you can’t watch TV
on your Mac. For example,
the picture on a television is created by
two rapidly alternating sets of scan lines
that constitute an interlaced or NTSC
signal; a computer monitor is “painted”
in one continuous pass, using a non¬
interlaced or RGB signal (for a more
complete discussion of these issues
see “Mac TV Tools,” September 1989).
Until recently, this incompatibility has
prevented the Macintosh from being
used as a desktop video tool.

To create a workable Macintosh
video setup, you need a videotape or
videodisk player (or camera) to pro¬
vide the raw video image; an NTSC-to-
RGB decoder to see the TV picture on
your Mac; software that lets you pro¬
cess the incoming signal (to provide
transition effects, add animations, or
superimpose titles on top of the TV
image); genlock circuitry to synchro¬
nize the video and Mac images; an RGB-
to.NTSC encoder to turn the Mac signal
back into IV (NTSC) format; and final¬
ly, a second videotape recorder to cap¬
ture the resulting TV-plus-Mac-graph¬

ics picture. You might also want a frame
grabber (video digitizer) to capture still
images from the video at any time.

Several boards provide partial so¬
lutions to this complicated equation.
However, none so far has been capable
of displaying full-color, full-screen,
real-time video on a standard Apple
color monitor (they usually require a
costly computer-and-TV monitor called
a multisync monitor). And few have at¬
tempted to combine all of the various
elements of the encoding-decoding
chain into a single product.

Pick a Card

Now, however, Mass Microsystems has
introduced the ColorSpace Ili and
ColorSpace FX boards. There are
enough good engineering ideas in
these boards to take Mac video produc¬
tion a significant step forward. In es¬
sence, these boards consist of signal
encoder-decoders, genlock circuitry,
digitizing features, a live video display
board with 24-bit color, and a Macin¬
tosh graphics display board with 8-bit
color — all rolled into a single package.

The significance of having one dis¬
play circuit for the video image and
another for the QuickDraw elements
of the Mac environment is that you can
view the incoming video image on a
standard Apple color monitor. The
picture is outstanding (that’s a compli¬
ment to the monitor as well as the
boards); the live video appears in 24-
bit color no matter which Apple color
board (4-bit or 8-bit) you normally use.
The ColorSpace software lets you
watch color TV while crunching num¬
bers in Excel. And not just in a window
in the corner of the screen — you can
use the full screen area of the Apple
monitor to display “LA. Law” while
you’re working on the annual report.

That's the Key

Fortunately, ColorSpace boards can
do far more than turn a Mac into the
world’s most expensive 'IV set. To
specify where you want to see the video
image, you can select a key color using
the ColorSpace software. A key color
works just like the chroma-key system
in TV studios — anywhere the specified

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MACWORLD • MARCH 1 990

color appears on the screen, it’s re¬
placed by the video image.

Say you draw a blue rectangle in
MacDraw and designate blue as the key
color. You don’t see a blue rectangle at
all. Instead, you see a rectangular slice
of the incoming video image. Ifyou use
Canvas’s airbrush to spray a blue spat¬
ter across the screen, you create the
effect of wiping fog off a TV screen to
reveal the TV picture underneath. If
you select the background color of the
Mac desktop as the key color, you see
the icons and windows suddenly sit¬
ting atop a full-screen, full-color, real¬
time video picture.

Once you understand this concept,
you can see how easy it is to superim¬
pose graphics or animations over the
video picture; your second videotape
player will record the resulting com¬
bined image. Using any color program,
fill the background with the key color
and add titles or other graphics using
any other colors. Or make the text the
key color, and the video actually plays
within the letters themselves.

HyperTV

Another useful part of the ColorSpace
system is that the FX board responds
to various HyperCard (or SuperCard)
XCMDs to process the picture. By
clicking an on-screen button, for ex¬
ample, you can flip the live video up¬
side down, posterize the colors, spin
the video image along a bezier-curve
path of your choice, and so on. Be¬
cause you have a choice of three video
inputs, you can use these commands as
transitional effects from one video
source to another — to cut from one
camera to another, for example.

To take advantage of these powers,
you need some proficiency in Hyper¬
Talk programming; otherwise, you’ll

Using the Desktop Video desk accessory (left),
you specify the key color. The entire desktop
displays the live video image.

have to use the ready-to-go effects
provided in the ColorSpace FX stack.
Those fluent in HyperTalk can design
special visual effects using the Color-
Space XCMDs as building blocks.

Multimedia Machine

The ColorSpace boards definitely are
not aimed at the home user. First of
all, their combined list price is nearly
$6000. Second, the boards’ setup isn’t
as simple as you might hope, and the
manual isn’t much help (for example,
figure 2-3 is an empty box labeled “TO
BE DRAWN”). A VHS cassette tutorial
takes you carefully through board in¬
stallation, but then abandons you at
the crucial point — setting up video
sources, monitors, and cabling.

Remember, too, that you’ll proba¬
bly want to buy both boards together.
The ColorSpace Ili itself lets you over¬
lay Mac graphics on the video signal
and capture still images. But it’s the
ColorSpace FX that provides most of
the best features — the ability to resize
the video image, use your Apple moni¬
tor as a display, process the video im¬
age with special effects, and achieve a
stable, flicker-free image at all times.

On the other hand, these boards
provide a compact, integrated video
package for presenters and creators
of interactive videos (such as self¬
running, videodisk-based trade-show
displays). In-house corporate video
productions also stand to gain much.
And Mass Microsystems reports that
some cable and independent TV pro¬
duction facilities are using the boards
for broadcast work. (Unfortunately, the
boards don’t work with some popular
multisync monitors; ifyou already own
a monitor, be sure to call Mass Mi¬
crosystems before you buy.)

Hard and Soft

The ColorSpace boards are very good.
But no matter how good they are,
they’re only one tool in a video toolbox
and don’t represent a complete desk¬
top video system. Like other video
boards, the ColorSpace boards sorely
lack some mechanism for controlling
video decks attached to them. There is
still no readily available software or
hardware to control videotape players,
for example — you have to roll the
source tape and hope to roll the cap¬
turing tape at the right moment.

Still, the ColorSpace boards pro¬
vide enough carefully written software
to achieve a number of useful effects
and enough HyperCard XCMDs to
provide a starting point for more cus¬
tomized effects. Desktop video will
probably never catch fire as an every¬
day Mac buzzword; it’s too expensive
and too complicated. But the Col¬
orSpace boards provide a more com¬
plete, moderately priced package than
any product currently available.

— David Pogue

Thanks to Sam Edwards and David
Poole for their technical assistance.

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Database

4TH DIMENSION 2.0.6

Pros: Powerful and flexible application
generator; superb development
environment. Cons: Has problems in
multiuser mode with TOPS and Liaison.
Company: Acius. Requires: Mac Plus;

1 ,5MB RAM recommended if
using MultiFinder; hard disk. 68020
CPU recommended. Requires
System 6.0.3. List price: $795.

It was billed in advance by
Guy Kawasaki as the “most
ambitious software upgrade
in the history of the Macintosh,” and
I was eager to find out whether 4th Di¬
mension’s long-awaited second ver¬
sion was worthy of such hype. I found
that version 2.0.6 of 4th Dimension
(4D) is both faster and easier to use
than the original and that most com¬
mon database operations can now be
accomplished without programming.
Although it falls short of the prerelease
hype, Acius’s latest database manager
and application generator is arguably
one slick upgrade.

Performance

The first version of 4D won many acco¬
lades for its superb user interface and
design environment, but these features
required high-powered hardware and
plenty of RAM in order to perform
adequately when working with com-
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REVIEWS

Making a Button

The Object Definition box allows you to specify
what action you want a newly created button
in a layout to do. Any action in the pop-up
menu can be assigned to the new button by
double-clicking on the desired item. Clicking on
the Script button in the lower left corner lets
you write a custom script that will be executed
whenever the button is clicked.

CD Base

4th Dimension 2.0.6 allows you to create full-
color layouts that include radio buttons, pop-up
menus, scrollable areas, and included layouts.

plex databases (see “Working in the 4th
Dimension,” Macworld, May 1988).
With the new release, the time required
to perform most database operations
has been reduced by about a factor of
between two and five (see “4th Dimen¬
sion 2.0.6 Advantage”). Some of these
improvements were achieved by re¬
ducing the number of separate desk¬
top files maintained by 4D from six or
more to only two; others were obtained
from changes in the way the program
deals with data internally. The most
dramatic improvement in performance
is in importing data, an operation that
was ridiculously slow in 4D’s first re¬
lease; version 2.0.6 imports data 14
times as fast. Although performance
on machines with a 68020 or 68030
processor is now on a par with most
other relational databases available for
the Mac, iD is still uncomfortably slug¬
gish on a Mac Plus or SE. Furthermore,
since 4D tends to generate large files
and l because the program reads and
writes to disk often during its opera¬

tion, a large, fast hard disk is essential to
maximize performance. Another way
to increase performance is to minimize
disk access by providing more mem¬
ory', but you’ll probably find that both a
fast hard disk and lots of RAM are nec¬
essary' to get acceptable performance
when working with complex databases.

Version 2.0.6 isn’t just faster, it’s
simpler to use. In its first incarnation,
4D justifiably earned the reputation of
having a steep learning curve; to make
full use of the program you had to write
code using 4D’s built-in programming
language. In version 2.0.6 many com¬
monplace features are automated so
novice or casual designers don’t have
to learn to use the internal language.
Automatic bidirectional relational
links between files, included layouts
(forms within forms), and a multitude
of other features like ready-to-use but¬
tons can all be implemented by point¬
ing, dragging, and clicking (see “Mak¬
ing a Button” and “CD Base”). New
editors for generating mailing labels
and reports have also been added.

Version 2.0.6 also offers experi¬
enced programmers a host of new and
enhanced capabilities. These include a
For looping structure that’s at least
twice as fast as a While loop, enhanced
scrollable areas, advanced array man¬
agement, improved handling of lists
and color, and the ability to attach scripts
to objects like buttons or icons on a
form layout. With the power and flexi¬
bility provided by these additions, 4D

rivals the best database software avail¬
able for any computer, including mini¬
computers or mainframes.

Although 4D supplies all the tends
to build applications that look and feel
like other Macintosh programs, the
program itself deviates from standard
Macintosh user guidelines in a few bi¬
zarre ways. For example, once created,
a data file or field can’t be deleted.
Acius says it has no plans to permit the
deletion of files or fields in the near
future and suggests that you leave
excess files or fields alone and canni¬
balize them as needed when new ones
are required. Another anomaly is that
when you make changes to a full-
page layout of a subrecord and then
click on the Cancel button, whatever
changes you made to the layout are
still accepted. Again, Acius has said it
has no plans to “change the functional¬
ity” of this situation. The' only work¬
around is to write a program for the
parent form that checks to see if the
Cancel button is clicked, and when it is,
reset all values for the affected
subrecord back to what they were be¬
fore the subrecord was edited. One
final example is that 4D doesn't moni¬
tor the status of an ImageWriter print¬
er unless you write the code to handle
it yourself. Thus if you send a print job
to an ImageWriter that’s turned off or
been taken offline, 4D will merrily
proceed to print without even inform¬
ing you there’s a problem.

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4th Dimension 2.0.6 Advantage

Measured as times faster than 4th Dimension 1.0.6

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Import 5000 records
Sort indexed field
Sort unindexed field
Find exact/unindexed
Find contents
Index date field
Export data

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10.4

Action after a fresh start-up
Immediate repetition of first action

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only new or changed files within your SmartSet— a full day’s worth of
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REVIEWS

Multiuser

A properly designed 4th Dimension
database can be accessed simultane¬
ously by several users over a network.
In my hands, multiuser operation over
LocalTalk using the AppleTalk net¬
working protocol was improved over
that of version 1.0.6 but still sluggish
at best. Some 4D developers have re¬
ported getting much better results
using a PC-based 3Com Ethernet
server. To improve performance you
can place a copy of the structure file
for a database on the hard disk of
each node. The remote application can
then retrieve layouts and procedures
from a local hard disk, thereby reduc¬
ing network traffic. However, should
you ever wish to alter the structure of
the database, you'll have to change all
of the remote structure files as well.

As this review was being prepared,
Acius was promising the release of an
inexpensive run-time version compat¬
ible with version 2.0.6. If you intend to
use 4D on a network, you should be
aware that developers have uncovered
incompatibilities between the initial
release of version 2.0.6 and common
networking software such as TOPS
and Liaison. So check with Acius to
ensure that your networking setup is
compatible before you buy.

Support

Unlimited free assistance is available
from Acius through a telephone help
line (not toll free). Novices and experi¬
enced developers alike can also get
quick help in programming 4th Di¬
mension from Acius representatives
and from other developers by access¬
ing a very active CompuServe elec¬
tronic bulletin board.

An Excellent Choice

If you’re looking for a database that’s
easy to put to work right away yet still
powerful enough to grow into, 4th
Dimension is an excellent choice pro¬
vided you have a machine with suffi¬
cient power and memory, and a hard
disk fast enough to drive it. When the
compiler recently announced by par¬
ent distributor ACI in France becomes
available in the United States, 4th
Dimension could become all the justi¬
fication you need to buy a Macintosh.
— David L. Foster

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24-pin Printer and Macintosh Interface

TOSHIBA P321SLC

Pros: Produces high-speed, near-laser-
quality text; also prints 360-dpi
graphics and color. Cons: Noisy; slow
for high-resolution graphics or color.
Company: Toshiba America Information
Systems Requires: Mac Plus; hard
disk. List price: $899; MacMatrix (includes
printer driver, font sets, and cable) $49.

,^1*. A few years ago, Apple Com-
puter created a unique op¬
portunity for printer makers.
By allowing the ImageWriter LQ to
remain on the market as one of the
most complained-about products ever
seen, it gave other makers of -24-pin
printers a chance to offer Mac users
something that would almost certainly
outperform Apple’s own offering.

Now Toshiba is offering a printer-
and-interface package in which every¬
thing has been done right. In particu¬
lar, it solves one problem that has
troubled other manufacturers: Toshi¬
ba found, at GDT Softworks, a printer
driver that’s been around long enough
to have been thoroughly debugged.
GDT’s Mac-Matrix (which includes the
printer driver, font sets, and cable), as
repackaged by Toshiba, allows you to
use your Macintosh applications with
no special precautions or modifica¬
tions, a rare feat in the world of non-
Apple printers. In addition to this, the
P321SLC is itself an excellent piece of
hardware, already well received on
the IBM PC side of the fence. The
whole point of a 24-pin printer is to
combine speed with letter quality,
and the P321SLC delivers.

The Toshiba P321SLC

Configurations

Installing the printer is a bit of work —
as shipped it has no Mac-specific set¬
tings. In a little LCD window, you pick
emulation mode, buffer size, serial in¬
terface, protocol, baud rate, parity, and
stop and data bits. This procedure can
be confusing because you are con¬
fronted with a number of extra settings
the direction card says nothing about
(though you can ignore these and all is
well). Besides this card, you have a
helpful MacMatrix manual and a fat To¬
shiba manual with more information
than you’re likely to need, including a
chapter of IBM-specific software hints.

Software installation is straightfor¬
ward — it’s nearly the same for all non-
Apple printers. You install a set of pro¬
vided printer-resident fonts with Font/
DA Mover and load a set of supplied
outline fonts into your System Folder.
You also drag a Toshiba CDEV to the
System Folder, and select the printer
in the Chooser. The resident fonts are
fast (timed at 200 characters per sec¬
ond on Microsoft Word documents)
but limited: 12-point Courier, 10-point
Prestige Elite, and 10-point High Speed
Draft. The outline fonts in the MacMa¬
trix package are called TMS Roman,
Helvet, Courier, and Symbol. When you
select a font in one of these four fami-
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lies from a Mac menu, the software
selects its own outline font for printing
(Helvet for Helvetica. TMS Roman for
Times), even though you've selected
the font with the more familiar name.
In other words, the software works
behind the scenes to give you the best
possible print quality; you don’t even
really need to know how it does it.

Both printer-resident fonts and
MacMatrix outline fonts give you ex¬
ceptionally clean printing, and the
outline fonts can be scaled from 6 to
127 points with no degradation. For
other fonts, the printer driver repro¬
duces the screen bitmap image — if
you’ve made a font choice that looks
ragged on screen, you’ll get faithful
hard copy with crisp staircase edges on
your large capital A’s.

Picture This

The printer says three-in-one right on
top, by which Toshiba means capabili¬
ties for fast draft printing with resident
fonts, black-and-white graphics print¬
ing (implicitly, Mac outline and bit¬
map-font text printing as well), and
color printing. Graphics for the Mac
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360 by 360 resolution. As you might
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vivid colors. It’s also easy to use — just
snap in the Toshiba color ribbon, in¬
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you want it, and check color in the Page
Setup and Print dialog boxes. It’s slow
though; it takes 12 seconds to print one
page of a Wingz spreadsheet (text and
numbers) using one of the printer’s
letter-quality resident fonts. Printing a
page of the same spreadsheet includ¬
ing a high-resolution color chart that
takes up about one-third of the page
requires9 minutes and lOseconds (see
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Surgical Simulation Game

LIFE & DEATH 1.01

Pros: Challenging and educational.

Cons: No color; game in progress can't be
saved. Company: The Software Toolworks.

Requires: Mac Plus List price: $49.95.

Nowadays it seems as if noth¬
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of a warning. The folks at
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to try Life & Death if you’re faint of
heart — a wise move. If the embossed
photo of a bloody brain on the box
doesn’t get to you, the challenge and
frustration of playing the game just
might.

Mac General

Life & Death comes with four pieces of
documentation, including a delightful
pamphlet on the history of surgery.
The surgical mask and gloves are a nice
touch and handy if you have to do any
painting around the house.

Life & Death begins in a hospital
corridor, complete with nursing sta¬
tion, patient rooms, and doors leading
to the operating room (O.R.) and staff
rcxim. After signing in with Monica, the
nurse on duty, you’re assigned a pa¬
tient to examine. During the first few
minutes, your beeper is bound to go
off. Unless you answer by dialing the
correct number, you’ll be penalized
later on. This has nothing to do with
the rest of the game, so it’s remarkably
annoying, just like the real thing.

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A click on the doorway to the pa¬
tient’s room plants you at the foot of
the bed. After reading the history from
the chan, it’s time to examine the pa¬
tient. During the rudimentary physical,
you get to press on the patient’s abdo¬
men and listen to the patient’s com¬
ments. A few seconds of probing are
usually enough to determine if surgery
is required. If you are still not sure, you
might have to order an X ray or ultra¬
sound scan to confirm your suspicion.
This is the most simplistic and least
challenging aspect of Life & Death, but
you quickly learn to zip through it.

Life & Death lets you perform two
operations: beginners get to tackle an
appendectomy, while more experi¬
enced surgeons are faced with a com¬
plex aortic-graft procedure. Once in¬
side the O.R., you’re responsible for
everything from prepping the patient
and turning on the anesthesia to sutur¬
ing (see ‘“Making the Cut”). As you dis¬
sect through the layers of tissue, you
have to clamp and cauterize bleeding
vessels. From time to time, you’re
expected to treat heart irregularities
with injections of medication. The
simulation is tricky and surprisingly
realistic, apart from the lack of color
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Making the Cut

A critical moment in the O R.: as you work,
members of your surgical team give you hints
and advise you of complications.

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(red and white would do just fine).

life & Death is awfully finicky about
the way you go about your chores in the
operating room. If you don’t do pre¬
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you back to medical school for a re¬
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an operation in progress, you’re forced
to start from scratch every time. The
manual isn’t much help — some of the
surgical steps are listed in the wrong
order or aren’t explained in enough
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aggravating at times.

Despite the frustration, I’m willing
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myself after completing both opera¬
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can be educational for anyone inter¬
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Indexed Database Toolbox for HyperCard

HYPERHIT 2.2

one or more keys. A key can be a se¬
quence number, such as a customer
number, or part of a field, such as the
zip code or the first six letters of the last
name. The only way to search for a
record in HyperHit is through its keys.
HyperCard stores data as a continuous
string of text within a stack. You can
search for any character set within a
HyperCard text string.

When you create a HyperHit data¬
base, you must define three parame¬
ters for each keyset: key length, which
must be the same for all keys in the
keyset; whether or not duplicate keys
are to be allowed; and whether or not
subordinate keys are to be allowed.

The duplicate-key option prevents
you from assigning the same customer
number to two clients, but clients can
have the same zip code.

Subordinate keys allow you to cre¬
ate a hierarchical database. For exam¬
ple, if a customer has five different re¬
ceiving locations, you could create a
database in which the upper-level key
is a customer number that points to a
record containing the main customer
information, such as billing address
and sales tax status. The database could
then have a subordinate key for each
shipping location.

Keys can also lie used indepen¬
dent of records. For example, you can
create a key that is made up of depart¬
ment numbers with no attached set of
records. If you want to ensure that
users type a valid department number
into HyperCard, you can have Hyper¬
Hit compare the number entered to
the key and display an error message if
there’s no match.

Using keys makes access fast. It
takes HyperCard approximately 20 to
30 seconds to search a database with
700 records, but HyperHit takes less
than 1 second. Unfortunately, you are
limited to searching by the keys you
define when you set up the system. So
if you are using last name and zip code
as keys, you cannot search by street as
you can in HyperCard.

Choosing between HyperCard and
HyperHit is a relatively simple matter.
HyperHit should be used for large
databases where HyperCard would be
too slow. Additionally, if you want to
store data in multiple files, HyperHit
allows you to have as many open files as
memory can accommodate. Hyper¬
Card, of course, allows only one stack
to be open at a time. If, on the other
hand, you have 200 or 300 short rec-
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Pros: Stores SND, PICT, and text files.
Cons: Hierarchical structure not as flexible
as relational systems; requires advanced
skill with HyperTalk. Company: Soft-
Stream International. Requires: Mac Plus;

HyperCard. List price: $1 95.95.

HyperHit is a set of XFCNs
(external functions) that lets
you create and manipulate
indexed records from within Hyper¬
Card. These 40 commands enable you
to open, close, and create files; read,
write, and rewrite text, PICT, and SND
files; create keys (references that ac¬
cess records) and use those keys for
searches; and convert and handle data.
While HyperHit can be used only with¬
in HyperCard and all HyperHit XFCNs
must be embedded in a HyperTalk
script, HyperHit files are not stacks.

The Key Difference

The big difference between HyperCard
stacks and HyperHit files is HyperHit’s
use of keys. HyperHit files are made up
of distinct records, each of which has

HYKKH1T

Key

Structure

Subordinate Keys

Location 1
v Number

Location 2
y Number

Upper-Level Key

Customer Record

Shipping Address

James Walker

Jennifer Hockton

Fred Schmildtz

due 30 days

102 Warehouse Way

552 North Bump Rd.

3299 Splinter St.

Paradise, California

Cucamonga, California

Paradise, California

Records

This diagram represents a hierarchical key structure. Each upper-level key
(customer number) points to a customer record. The record contains
general customer information such as name, address. Each upper-level
key also points to a set of subordinate keys containing the customer-
location number. Each location key accesses a record that contains the
shipping address.

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ords in your database, HyperCard is
easier to set up, and it searches whole
records — often an advantage.

Another HyperHit disadvantage is
that it is hierarchical rather than rela-
ti( >nal. I lierarchical systems require that
you set up the types of searches you
will w ant to perform ahead of time. Re¬
lational systems, which do not use keys,
allow you to do ad hoc searches using
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Ease of Learning

All powerful database programs have a
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HyperHit comes with scripts that
can be used as a reference for creating
and searching simple one-key data¬
bases. But beyond that, you’re on your
own. HyperHit can greatly increase
HyperCard’s speed with large stacks
while maintaining the HyperCard user
interface. HyperHit is an excellent tool
for developers or anyone w ho is wi 1 1 i ng
to acquire the skills to become one.
— Lawrence Stevens

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Certificate Production Software

TOP HONORS 1.02

Pros: Uses EPS graphics. Cons: Limited
graphics usage, not Suitcase-com¬
patible, non-standard printing method.

Company: Springboard Software.
Requires: Mac Plus; PostScript printer.
List price: $99.95.

There’s nothing like an at¬
tractively designed, person¬
alized certificate to jazz up an
office or make someone’s day. Top
Honors from Springboard Software
w'as created to produce simple certifi¬
cates quickly and easily and to take ad¬
vantage of high-quality EPS graphics
and downloadable PostScript fonts.

Easy Does It

Top Honors comes with two certificate
templates, three files of graphics, bor¬
ders and seals, plus a special decorative
font. Old German, that you can use to
make ornate certificates.

The "505" Club

Shown here is a close-up of the seal and
border patterns used to create a certificate.
Notice the two lines of added text I used to
customize the seal.

To create a certificate, you simply
choose New Certificate from the File
menu and choose portrait or land¬
scape orientation from the Certificate
Format dialog box. You then see a blank
certificate on screen that consists of
border, title, body, signature, date, and
graphic areas. Each of these elements —
except, of course, the border — -is an in¬
dependent element that you can move;
but the certificate template actually lets
you produce a professional-looking cer¬
tificate on the first try.

To enter text to the title, body,
signature, or date sections of a certifi¬
cate, you double-click on one of those
sections; this brings up a dialog box
specific to that part of the form. For the
title, for instance, you see a series of
blank lines and three formatting op¬
tions: lines of parallel text; one curved,
centered line of text over two straight
lines; or curved lines bracketing one
line of straight text. You have access to
any downloadable PostScript font resi¬
dent in your connected laser printer
(provided that font is no larger than
50K). If you don’t have a laser printer
connected, you have access to Courier,
Helvetica, and Times-Roman.

To add a border pattern, you
double-click on the border area of the
template and select one of the 24 pat¬
terns that come with the program.
These patterns range from ornate roses
to spare Art Nouveau curlicues and
should offer something for everyone.

You’re limited, h( >w ever, to the use
of only three graphics: one seal, one
EPS graphic, and one MacPaint-format
graphic. To add the first of these, you
can double-click on the graphic area at
the lower right of the certificate tem¬
plate, which opens the graphics dialog
box. There you can either select one of
the ten EPS graphics that come with
the product (ranging from books to
crests, charts, crosses, eagles, and other
emblematic artwork), choose one of
the seven seals also included with the
product, or import an EPS or MacPaint
file of your own.

To add the remaining two graphics
you choose Add Graphic from the
Graphics menu. If you choose to im¬
port a MacPaint graphic you can use
the grabber hand, the marquee, or the
lasso tools in the Add Graphic dialog
box to select only that part of the graph¬
ic that you want to import. For a really
fancy effect, you can even set the gray
scale of the EPS graphic you’re using,
so that it looks like a watermark in the
certificate’s background.

To each of the supplied seals you
can add two lines of your own curved
text, although you’re limited to 35
characters on each line.

Wild Cards

To print a set ofcertificates, you can use
Top Honor’s wild-card feature. Instead
of entering an individual’s name in the
body of the certificate, type name to
indicate that you’ll be working from a
list. Then select Create Name List from
the File Menu, and enter the list of
names. When you print out a certificate
with the name in it, the program
prompts you to select a list of names
and asks you to select individuals on
that list or Select All.

One problem I had was that the
p rogra m does n ’ t al 1 o w access to screen
fonts installed via a resource manager
such as Suitcase or Master! uggler. And
I had trouble printing certificates when
Suitcase was installed. I hadsome prob¬
lems getting my initial certificates to
print, but I received good technical
support from Springboard Software.

For a simple, easy-to-use certificate
maker that takes advantage of Post-
Script-quality graphics and text, I give
Top Honors, well, top honors.

— Chris Ferino

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Video Frame Grabber

NEOTECH IMAGE
GRABBER 1.8

Pros: Versatile image processing tools;
supports multiple file formats; extensive
halftoning options; compatible with
NTSC and PAL video standards.
Cons: Some functions irreversible; not
compatible with all video cameras.
Company: Advent Computer Products.
Requires: Mac II; 8-bit video board. Hard
disk recommended. List price: $1499.

The Neotech Image Grabber
adds to the growing list of
frame-grabber b( >ards for t he
Mac II (a companion product for the
SE lists for $1249). Once you become
accustomed to the Neotech software’s
odd user interface, the hardware does
an excellent job of capturing video
images in black and white.

Plug and Play

The Neotech board slips into any open
NuBus slot and connects to a video
source (usually a camera or VCR) using
a standard RCA-type connector. The
Image Grabber can digitize a video
frame in V30 second and is compatible
with both NTSC and European PAL
standards. Although captured images
are black and white, a software-
selectable color filter enables you to
work with color sources. The board
isn’t compatible with older cameras
that don’t produce synchronization
pulses with the video signal. The 2.5mm
socket lets you initiate image capture
with an external trigger.

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Freeze Frame

This scene was recorded on a VHS camcorder
and captured from videotape. The Tone Graph
window under the tool palette shows the distri¬
bution of gray values in the image.

Advent Computer's Neotech Image Grabber

The language and spelling in the
Neotech manual clearly show the
product’s British heritage. The text is
interspersed with lots of well-illus¬
trated examples, and sections on video
technology, image printing, and half¬
toning are included.

The application’s user interface is a
bit peculiar: I had trouble remember¬
ing the purpose of each of the icons in
the tool palette, for example. More
seriously, you can’t fully undo some
functions, and you are not always
warned if you close a file without sav¬
ing changes. But once I got used to
the software, I began to appreciate
its extensive complement of features.

The program operates in two basic
modes. In Released Mode, the Mac dis¬
plays live video, updated at about 5
frames per second. You can adjust
brightness and contrast manually, or
choose the Automatic Exposure con¬
trol to optimize settings automatically.
When you’re ready to save a scene, a
click on the capture icon freezes the
current video frame and switches the
program to Captured Mode.

The board won’t digitize from a
VCR on pause, but you can usually get
good results on the fly. If you’re work¬
ing with a stationary subject, the Multi-
Grab feature lets you average up to 256
frames to smooth out noise in the video
signal. For those who prefer to import
images directly into an image process¬
ing application, the Image Grabber
comes with plug-in acquisition mod¬
ules for Letraset’s Image Studio and
Digital Darkroom from Silicon Beach.

In Captured Mode, an impressive
array of image-manipulation tools be¬
comes available through palettes and
menus. In addition to offering the usual
flip, rotate, invert, and posterize func¬
tions, the program provides tools for
altering the tonal balance of an image.
You can centralize gray levels around a

chosen value, for example. While tin¬
kering, you can display a histogram of
gray values in the whole image or any
part of it (see “Freeze Frame"). A set of
seven editable convolution filters (in¬
cluding sharpening and edge tracing)
rounds out the list of functions.

Getting It Out

Images can be saved in a variety of file
formats, including encapsulated and
plain PostScript, TIFF, RIFF, PICT,
PICT2, and MacPaint. The Image Grab¬
ber application gives you extensive
control over halftoning options for
saving to a PostScript file or printing
directly to a PostScript printer, letting
you adjust screen density and angle,
dot pattern and gain, and rotation.

All in all, the product does its job
well. I obtained consistently good re¬
sults with a color camera and a VCR. If
you’re in the market fora high-quality
black-and-white digitizer, I highly rec¬
ommend the Neotech Image Grabber.
— Franklin N. Tessler

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MIDI Sequencer Software

DELUXE RECORDER 1.0

Pros: Full featured; screen interface is
unusually intuitive. Cons: Sluggish response
to many commands; changing settings
while a song is playing occasionally causes
notes to stick or the program to crash.
Company: Electronic Arts. Requires: Mac
Plus; System 6.0.2; MIDI interface; MIDI
sound source and controller. Hard
disk recommended. List price: $149.95.

Stepping squarely into the
breach between professional
MIDI sequencers and bare-
bones shareware, Electronic Arts’ newr
Deluxe Recorder combines enough
musical sophistication to satisfy most
serious electronic musicians at a price
even amateurs can afford. Unfortu¬
nately, sluggish screen performance
and a significant playback bug mar this
otherwise excellent program.

A Sequential Melody

In case you’re unfamiliar with the elec¬
tronic musician’s lexicon, a sequencer
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is computer software, or a hardware
device, for recording and playing hack
music from synthesizers and other
electronic musical instruments. Se¬
quencers are like multitrack tape re¬
corders in that you can record on mul¬
tiple tracks all at once or one at a time,
mix music from several tracks, and dub
new music on top (if an earlier record¬
ing. However, instead of picking up the
sound of the music itself the way a tape
recorder does, a sequencer records a
set of instructions for re-creating the
music on synthesizers and drum ma¬
chines. Since you need actual instru¬
ments to replay the completed song, or
sequence, it has more in common with
a player piano roll than with a tape
recording. A sequence is stored in the
form of a stream of digital data that
specifies w hen each note begins play¬
ing, how' long it lasts, how loud it’s to
be, and other nuances. The right se¬
quencer software lets you change a
song’s tempo, pitch, and notes by edit¬
ing this data to your heart’s content —
something you could never do with a
tape recording or a piano roll.

Like most sequencers, Deluxe
Recorder relies on the visual metaphor
of a tape deck control panel for basic
operation; the console window offers
play, rewind, and fast-forward buttons,
and a counter showing where you are
in the song (see “Central Console”).

The program lets you record on 16
separate tracks, fewer than more ex¬
pensive sequencers provide, but plen¬
ty for all but the most complex com¬
positions. In contrast to some low-end
sequencers, Deluxe Recorder records
all types of MIDI data and can filter
out any kind of data you don’t want
in your sequence. The program comes
with a utility that transfers sequences

Central Console

In the console window you can see the tape
deck-like controls at the top and under them a
list of the song's tracks. The edit window at
the bottom of the screen lets you see and edit
your musical data.

to and from Electronic Arts’ music
notation program, Deluxe Music Con¬
struction Set; the utility can also
exchange sequences with other pro¬
grams via standard MIDI files.

MIDI Magic

Despite its low price, Deluxe Recorder
delivers a surprisingly complete set of
editing tools. Like every sequencer I
know of, you can have the program
correct or quantize rhythmic errors so
that the beginning of every note falls
on an even division of the beat. But
Deluxe Recorder’s version of this fea¬
ture is nearly as flexible and sophisti¬
cated as you’d find in the best Mac
sequencers. You can quantize the
length of the note separately, you can
quantize to any tuplet value you can
dream up (13 notes in the time of four,
for example), and you can even half-
quantize to preserve some of your
human imprecision. Each track has its
own edit window in which you can
alter notes or almost any type of MIDI
data individually or in selected groups,
copying, moving, or deleting them, or
penciling in new data from scratch.

A lot of thought went into design¬
ing Deluxe Recorder’s screen controls
to make altering myriad musical set¬
tings easy and fast. To change a track’s
volume, you press the mouse button
on the volume setting to pop up a
slider, then slide to the new volume
and release the button. To play a track
using a different synthesizer sound,
you select the sound from a pop-up
list. You can change any aspect of the
music while your sequence is playing,
so you can experiment with tempo,
mix (track volumes), transposition,
sound combinations, and so on.

Deluxe Recorder even offers a few
features that aren’t widely available on
the high-end packages. While most
sequencers are content to refer to
synthesizer sounds by their number in
the MIDI coding system, Deluxe Re¬
corder lets you title your sounds in
advance so you can select them by
name, instead. A rubato feature lets
you record a bass line or improvisation
in free time, then tell the program
where you wrant the beat to fall so that
accompanying tracks follow' along in
sync. One simple advantage Deluxe
Recorder enjoys over other Mac se¬
quencers is its lack of copy protec¬
tion — you never have to worry about
interrupting your muse to wait for a
replacement master disk.

What You Can't Do

Although Deluxe Recorder can hardly
be faulted for leaving out some of the
advanced features available on the
expensive programs, you should know
what you’ll be giving up. Although you
can loop any portion of the entire se¬
quence so that it plays repetitively, you
can’t loop individual tracks separately.
Compared to high-end sequencers,
Deluxe Recorder provides fewer op¬
tions for large-scale modifications of
data from MIDI controllers, such as
pitch bend or key velocity. You can
record pressure data from individual
keys (polyphonic aftertouch), but you
can’t edit that type of data or add it
from scratch. Deluxe Recorder does
not allow you to record synthesizer-
specific sound data or other system-
exclusive messages, and it also lacks
the sophisticated synchronization op¬
tions needed in a professional record¬
ing studio or for film and video scoring.

Putting aside comparisons with
other sequencers, Deluxe Recorder
stumbles occasionally on its own turf.
One problem is general torpor. New
windows, even simple lists of names,
open more slowly than in most Mac
software. Expecting an immediate re¬
sponse, you may click again during
the two- or three-second delay, with
the result that the window flickers
on and off as the program struggles
to catch up with your clicks. Screen
refresh is likewise on the slow side.
Fortunately, however, you won’t hear
delays in the music itself.

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Another sore spot is Deluxe Re¬
corder's erratic response when settings
such as volume or tempo are changed
during playback. On several occasions
during my tests, changes during play¬
back distracted the program enough
that it forgot to shut off some notes
that were playing, and on they
droned until I turned off the power
to the synthesizer. (Since stuck notes
are par for the MIDI course even
without this obvious Deluxe Record¬
er gaffe, the program should have a
panic button: Turn All Notes Off Now!
Three times the entire program locked
up, forcing me to restart my Mac. Until
this bug is fixed, you should save your
work before each playback.

Given these shortcomings, I can’t
recommend Deluxe Recorder with as
much enthusiasm as its smart design
and strong editing features would war¬
rant. Nevertheless, Deluxe Recorder is
still a very good sequencer and cer¬
tainly the most capable in its price
class — Steve Cummings

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Remote Access to a Mac

TIMBUKTU/REMOTE

1.0.1

Pros: Easy to learn and use; good
remote functionality. Cons: Difficult to
set up connections with some
modems; limited by telecommu¬
nications speeds. Company: Farallon
Computing Requires: Mac Plus;

modem (2400-baud modem
recommended). List price: $295.

[□I Helping a Macintosh user
with hands-on problems or
L^L=»T mysterious difficulties is next
to impossible unless you are standing
right there or have a way to take over
the user’s keyboard and show him or
her how to run the machine. Farallon
Computing’s Timbuktu/Remote lets
you control or observe another Mac
from your desktop and send text mes¬
sages or transfer files between any two
users who are running Timbuktu/
Remote and are connected via mo¬
dem. Timbuktu/ Remote 1.0.1 also
supports all the features found in Net¬
work Timbuktu.

Getting a modem to run with Tim¬
buktu Remote can present some diffi¬
culties. When I ran intosome problems
with the DIP switch settings, even
though I could see the blinking status
lights on my modem indicating normal
operation all Timbuktu/Remote would
tell me was, “Your modem is not re¬
sponding. Try turning it off and then
back on again.” Because I was dealing
with both Farallon and the modem’s
manufacturer, U.S. Robotics, it took
several phone calls to ascertain the
problem. As it turned out, the name
printed on my modem's case was in¬
correct. This, of course, meant that
the DIP switch settings recommended
by Farallon weren’t the right ones.
Once this minor problem was re¬
solved, the modem worked just fine.

The Connected Window controls
the program’s activities (see “The
Connected Window.”) Clicking on At¬
tention lets the remote user join into
Timbuktu/Remote’s activities, clicking
on Observe displays all activity occur¬
ring on the remote desktop, Control
lets you control the remote Mac with
your mouse and keyboard, and Files
permits bidirectional transfer of files or
blocks of files.

Timbuktu/Remote does not allow
direct control over a modem except as
part of a dial string. Initialization data
from the Hayes modem command set
is supplied as a part of the communica¬
tions setup, but no means of modem
control is available. If an error occurs,
the current dial string must be aborted,
a new one typed in, and the service
redialed. This gripe is fairly minor, but
it made the setup process trying. On
the plus side, Farallon has done an ex¬
cellent job of explaining how to work
with mixed tone-and-pulse dialing as
well as PBX systems.

The Connected Window

The Connected Window also includes the chat

window, where users can send and receive

messages. The buttons at the bottom of the

Connected window control the program's

activity.

Operating Metaphors

In essence, Timbuktu/Remote (and
its network-only sibling) is a simple
program. Once two Macintoshes are
connected, the user on the dialing
end of the link can observe what’s
happening on the other end or can as¬
sume control of the remote machine.
Even using a 9600-baud modem, how¬
ever, Macintosh operations happen
much more slowly; mouse move¬
ments tend to be somewhat jerky,
and the lag between a local mouse
click and the remote response is some¬
times disconcerting.

Timbuktu/Remote supports DAs
and remote-system setup maneuvers
(like using the Chooser or Control
Panel to change resource selections),
as well as access to remote printers and
other networked devices. The chat
feature, which allows users on both
ends of the connection to exchange
text messages, is useful and easy to
master. Also, the file-transfer feature
adds the ability to move files in either
direction by remote control.

Farallon Computing’s Timbuktu/
Remote is a valuable and useful piece
of software for managing communica¬
tions between remote Mac users and
for providing remote troubleshooting
and hands-on teaching capabilities.
The program is guaranteed to make
troubleshooting over the phone eas¬
ier. The $295 price makes Timbuktu/
Remote somewhat expensive, but it’s
a well-constructed, well-documented
program that is easy to use. It’s clearly
the program of choice for anyone who
needs to be able to observe what's
happening on or operate the desktop
of a remote Macintosh — Ed Tittel

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REVIEWS

7*r

HyperTalk Programming Tools

COMPILEIT 1.2

Pros: Speeds up execution of time-sensitive
parts of scripts; supports the ROM calls
in Inside Macintosh, volumes I— IV, and
in-line machine-language code. Cons: Not
a general-purpose HyperTalk compiler;
slow to compile on low-end Macs; supports
only integer math; cannot refer to
data on cards other than the current one.
Company: Heizer Software. Requires: Mac
Plus; 2MB RAM; HyperCard 1.1 or
later version List price: $99; includes Hyper¬
Card 1 .2.2 and ResCopy XCMD.

DIALOGER 1.0

Pros: Easy to use; enables you to
design attractive, complex dialog boxes
without using ResEdit; includes
several useful XFCNs and XCMDs,
including ResCopy XCMD. Cons: None.

Company: theResult Software.
Requires: Mac Plus. List price: $94.29;
includes HyperCard 1.2.2.

SCRIPTEDIT 1.1

Pros: Full-featured search and replace;
cutting, copying, and pasting between mul¬
tiple open scripts; many HyperCard
functions remain active while editing.
Cons: None Company: Somak Software.

Requires: Mac Plus; System 6.0.2.

List price: $79; includes HyperCard 1 .2.2.

WILD THINGS 1.0

Pros: Working examples included
for many popular language implemen¬
tations. Cons: Relatively high price.

Company: Language Systems
Corporation Requires: Mac Plus.

List price: $1 50; includes Hyper-Card
1.2.2 and ResCopy XCMD.

Normally, creating dialog
boxes requires a familiarity
with ResEdit or a similar util¬
ity. And since HyperCard doesn't sup¬
port user-designed dialog boxes, you’d
need to write an XFCN to call them from
within HyperCard. Dialoger, a com¬
bination of four stacks and several
XCMDs and XFCNs, is an all-in-one pack¬
age that allows you to design, modify,
and call dialog boxes from your stacks.

Dialoger makes it easy. Working
from the main stack, you can quickly
add text items (static or editable), but¬
tons (radio, push, or check boxes),
graphics (icons or pictures), pop-up
menus, and lists (see “Dialog Maker").
Once you’ve selected a new item, you
just drag it into place. Dialog Maker has
several functions to help you position
items, including restricting movement
to an invisible grid, nudging an item
with the cursor keys, and entering the
coordinates for an item’s location. The
dialog box itself can be any of four
types: standard, titled, shadow, or plain.

Once you’ve designed the dialog
box and wish to test it, the Create but¬
ton builds the working dialog box, and
the Show button lets you see how it will
look and work. Finally, the Export but¬
ton lets you attach the dialog box to
any stack. Since dialog boxes are saved
as separate cards in the Dialog Maker
stack, you can go back and change
them whenever you wish.

The Dialoger XFCN automatically
handles the details of displaying and
returning dialog results. All you have
to do is supply a simple HyperTalk
statement such as:
put Dialoger (DataEntry) into dResult.

This statement will cause Dialoger to
display a dialog box called DataEntry
and, when you choose OK or Cancel,
it will put the results into a container
called dResult. Each dialog item will
produce one line of text (indicating its
contents) in dResult.

Dialoger also includes external
commands and functions (XCMDs and
XFCNs) for displaying alert boxes,
handling lists, and prompting for an¬
swers to two questions at once. As a
bonus, as long as you avoid item types
that are unique to Dialoger (userText,
pop-up menus, and lists), dialog boxes
created with Dialoger can be used in
applications other than HyperCard.

Dialoger cannot be distributed
without a license from theResult Soft¬
ware. Dialoger 1.01 includes SuperCard
compatibility; Dialoger Developer, a
higher-end version, includes 40 ad¬
ditional XCMDs and XFCNs and an un¬
limited license to include Dialoger in
commercial or shareware stacks.

ScriptEdit

If you do a lot of scripting and want to
move beyond the limitations of Hyper¬

Card’s built-in editor, maybe it’s time
you graduated to ScriptEdit, a Hyper¬
Talk script editor DA.

ScriptEdit’s Installer stack is used
to install the XCMD that provides
HyperCard-to- ScriptEdit communica¬
tion. The XCMD allows ScriptEdit to
be popped up by typing ScriptEdit in
the message box. In addition, several
scripts can be installed in the Home
stack that make it even easier to invoke
ScriptEdit — by typing SED in the mes¬
sage box, by holding down Shift and
Option while the cursor is within a field
or button, or by holding down the
mouse button over a field or button
and dragging the cursor off screen.

Unlike the HyperCard editor,
ScriptEdit lets you have as many script
windows open at a time as memory
permits, enabling you to easily cut
and paste between scripts. And unlike
HyperCard’s editor, ScriptEdit lets
you have many HyperCard functions
and menus still active while you edit.
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Dialog Maker

You design and modify Dialog boxes in the Dialog
Maker stack. The icons on the right let you select
components, make a working copy of the dialog
box, and export it to any stack you wish.

ScriptEdit

ScriptEdit enables you to display scripts in any
installed font (Times Bold, in this case). You can
use pull-down menus (Messages, Control, and so
on) to quickly insert any HyperTalk keyword at
the current cursor position. The Objects window
on the right provides a selective list of objects
within the current stack, background, or card.
This example limits the list to fields and buttons.

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ScriptEdit also features a powerful
search-and-replace function similar to
that found in word processors. You
can specify the direction of each
search; whether or not to ignore case;
whether to accept partial words or
whole words only; whether to auto¬
matically return to the top of the script
if you started a search in the middle;
and whether to search the current
window, all open script windows, or
all scripts in the Objects window.

Other useful options include
Comment and Uncomment com¬
mands, which insert or remove the
double hyphen symbols that Hyper¬
Card uses to mark comments; Shift
left and Shift right commands to
move selected text left or right one tab
stop; a separate Undo command for
each open window; and a Revert com¬
mand to restore the script version that
was last saved. ScriptEdit’s Object win¬
dow boldfaces objects that contain
scripts, making it easy to select only
objects with scripts for editing. A
Compare command compares the two
topmost script windows and moves
the pointer to the first place in each
script where they differ. Windows can
be zoomed, arranged, or tiled from
pull-down menus. A Preferences dia¬
log box lets ScriptEdit retain the most
frequently used options as defaults for
future editing sessions.

The only feature missing from my
wish list is a syntax checker, but per¬
haps this is too much to ask from a DA.
If you do more than a little scripting,
pick up a copy of ScriptEdit. The
amount of time you’ll save by cutting
and pasting between scripts and
using the search-and-replace feature
should quickly justify the price.

Compilelt

Compilelt is a HyperCard stack that
enables you to create compiled
XCMDs and XFCNs from HyperTalk
scripts. However, it is not a stack com¬
piler, nor can you compile just any
script — only some HyperTalk key¬
words are supported. Eligible scripts
must either begin with the keyword
Function (for an XECN) or On (for an
XCMD). Once compiled, the handler
that follows Function or On becomes
the name of the XECN or XCMD.

Compiling requires several passes
through the data. After the global vari¬

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screen. Once a script has been entered or
pasted from the Clipboard, the two-pass
compilation process begins.

Wildlcon Editor

Wildlcons is a simple but effective icon editor.
After creating an icon, you can convert it into a
Rez (MPW) or RMaker-formatted file, if you like.

ables are initialized, the first full pass
checks syntax and tries to determine
variable types. In the second pass,
Compilelt converts the script to binary
code. Finally, Compilelt adds neces¬
sary library routines to the code, links
handlers and library routines to the
commands where they are called, and
converts the resulting code to a re¬
source and adds it to the target stack.
The compilation process moves slowly
on low-end machines. On my 2.5MB
Mac Plus, for instance, a 13-line test
script to calculate square roots took
17 minutes to compile. However, if you
have correctly identified a time-sensi¬
tive portion of your script, the wait may
well be worth it. Compiled versions of
scripts can run a lot faster.

Working with Compilelt involves
some adjustments to your usual Hy¬
perTalk programming routine. First,
you must be mindful of Compilelt’s
limitations — what can and cannot be
compiled, what form the script must be
in, and what keywords are legitimate.
(A keyword list is available at the press
of a button within the Compilelt
stack.) Second, existingscriptsare hard¬
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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

speed improvements over your initial
compilations depend a lot on how well
you can tweak the scripts in order to
take advantage of HyperCard and
Compilelt eccentricities. And al¬
though the Compilelt stack won’t
run in SuperCard, the XCMDs and
XFCNs that it creates can be imported
into SuperCard projects.

Wild Things

If you need capabilities that just aren’t
available in HyperCard, you’ll need to
acquire XCMDs and XFCNs or learn to
write your own. Fledgling program¬
mers typically steer clear of this sort of
work. Wild Things may be precisely
what they need to get started — 40
working external commands and func¬
tions, glue routines, and commented
source code and templates for MPW C
3.0 and Pascal, LightspeedC 3 0 and
Pascal, TML Pascal II, and Language
Systems FORTRAN.

Wild Things teaches by example.
Sample XCMDs and XFCNs are in¬
cluded within heavily commented
stacks, which can be divided roughly
into the following types: text manip¬
ulation, animation, special effects
(drawing), and math (statistics, geom¬
etry, trigonometry).

Wild Things also includes a useful
utility called Wildlcons, an icon cre¬
ator-editor (see “Wildlcon Editor”).
Using MacPaint-type tools, you can
design professional-looking icons for
your stacks or stand-alone applica¬
tions. Options let you shift, center,
invert, fill, flip, or rotate any selected
area; draw a mirror image; and work in
multiple icon-editing windows. If you
don’t want to start from scratch, Wild-
Icons will let you open and edit icons
found within any Macintosh program.

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Puzzle Collection

THE PUZZLE GALLERY:
AT THE CARNIVAL 1.0

Pros: Variety of puzzles; excellent
sound and color graphics. Cons: Some
puzzles have obscure solutions.
Company: Miles Computing; distributed
by Electronic Arts. Requires: Mac Plus;
second disk drive. Hard disk
recommended. List price: $39.95.

When it appeared a couple of
years ago, The Fool’s Errand
established itself as a new kind
of computer game that transcended
traditional categories. With its epic
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puzzles, and its stunning graphics and
animation, Cliff Johnson’s game cap¬
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A 3-by-3-letter puzzle from the Gallery. One
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One of many block puzzles in The Puzzle
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put the words together to form a sentence.

More Than a Fool

Like The Fool’s Errand, The Puzzle
Gallery' is chock-full of maddening and
magical puzzles. The puzzle types will
be familiar to survivors of The Fool’s
Errand: trick mazes, graphic jigsaws,
building-block puzzles, crosswords,
secret codes, three-by-three letter
shuffles, word searches, click-the-
buttons-in-the-right-order concatena¬
tions, and scrambled word jumbles.
The easy ones quickly seduce you into
trying just one more; the tough ones
follow you through your days and
nights as you search for solutions.
Even if you’re not ordinarily attracted
to puzzles and games in magazines,
there’s a good chance you’ll be sucked
in by the ones in The Puzzle Gallery.

For one thing, even simple cross¬
words and word searches are embel¬
lished with graphics and special effects
to reward winners and goad players
who haven’t yet solved them. The Puz¬
zle Gallery’s graphics resemble those
of The Fool’s Errand, but on a color
Mac II, all the monochrome silhou¬
ettes burst into blazing color. In addi¬
tion, The Puzzle Gallery is punctuated
with dozens of digitized sound effects
and spoken messages to entertain or
irritate you, depending on the state
of your spirit.

If your tolerance for frustration is
low, you’ll welcome the hints and help¬
ing hands that have been built into
some of the puzzles in this collection.
When you’ve found 27 of the 29 female
names hidden in the Ladies’ Room word
search grid, you’ll appreciate knowing
that the two that remain are hidden in
downward diagonals, and you’ll trea¬
sure the built-in feature that highlights
each diagonal as you search. You’ll also
applaud the go-back-one key that al¬
lows you to undo your mouse clicks as
you try to build a complete sentence by
clicking the buttons in the right order
in the concatenation puzzles.

Less Than an Errand

In spite of these embellishments, The
Puzzle Gallery lacks some of the magic
of its predecessor. If you were taken
by The Fool’s Errand because of its
tarot-inspired medieval tale, you may
lx* disappointed in The Puzzle Gallery.
There’s no mythical journey here —
just a simple carnival theme to tie the
puzzles together. Each of the puzzles,

from the Parking Lot to the First .Aid
Station, reveals more about sleazy
Hazard Park, often with a kind of re¬
petitive and low-brow humor. ( Want
to ride the Loop-O-Puke, the Alpine
Upchuck, or the Roto Vomit?)

And if you’re hoping for a grand
animated climax like the one in The
Fool’s Errand, you're in for another
disappointment. The last puzzle,
which reveals Hazard Park’s future, is
anticlimactic at best. If you expected a
gala finale, you might ask yourself why
you spent all those hours (and, possi¬
bly, another dozen dollars on the less-
than-crystal-clear hint book) trying to
get there.

Puzzling Conclusions

Does this mean that The Puzzle Gal¬
lery is a loser? Absolutely not. All kinds
of kids and adults (including me) have
disappeared for hours info The Puzzle
Gallery since it appeared on my hard
disk. Every one of them has enjoyed
it, although most said they preferred
The Fool’s Errand. In the end, The Puz¬
zle Gallery’s only real problem may be
that it has to follow a masterpiece.
— George Beekman

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Relational Database

DOUBLE HELIX 3.0

Pros: Icon-based data management;
flexible structure; superior networking and
CL/1 support Cons: Programming icons
are often cumbersome for complex
procedures. Company: Odesta Corpor¬
ation. Requires: Mac Plus; 1MB of RAM;
hard disk. List price: $595.

Helix, now Double Helix
3.0, is one of the oldest
surviving Mac applications.
Odesta originally developed a working
version on the Lisa and introduced the
Mac product in February' 198-t. Remark¬
ably, despite major upgrades nearly
every year, mostly designed to adapt it
to the Mac’s vastly increased capabili¬
ties, the product has changed charac¬
ter very little. The latest version keeps
Double Helix competitive with heavy¬
weight contenders FoxBase+/Mac,
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REVIEWS

Omnis 5, and 4th Dimension while
retaining a visual, intuitive interface.

Thinking in Icons

Odesta advertises Double Helix as a
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gets you to do some programming
without necessarily realizing it. To
create a Double Helix database (called
a Collection in Helixese), you drag a
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single file or table from an icon well into
a Relation. You then define a data entry
form, design a View or two of the data,
pick some Abacus icons to perform
database calculations, and index the
Relation on the fields of your choice
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lection and link them by key fields.

Because the database elements are
assembled in this free-form style, a
Double Helix database is easy to mod¬
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programming in other products are
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or by connecting special icons called
Tiles, each of which is actually the equi¬
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connect a sequence of Tiles that con¬
tradicts correct syntax, so beginners
and advanced users alike are locked
out of possible crashes.

This database style imposes con¬
siderable structural overhead on the
program, and as a result Double Helix
isn’t as fast as FoxBase+/Mac, which is
primarily a character-based program
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language. Double Helix 3.0 takes 2 1/2
minutes to build an index for a numer¬
ic field in a 1 500-record database (3 10K
file size); this is pretty languid but rep¬
resents a 30 percent improvement
over Double Helix II. Once the appro¬
priate fields in a database have been
indexed, however, Double Helix is
competitive in sorts and searches with
other databases. The new version makes
suggestions on index creation when
you are first setting up a Collection.

As the Helix Turns

Odesta has added some features in
Double Helix 3-0 requested by net¬
work users and by developers. The
network users claim the improve-

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Rounding Up the Data
A Helix Relation, corresponding loosely to a
table in traditional databases, includes data
fields, templates for data entry or reporting,
stock queries, and views for screen presenta¬
tion. This free-form style lends itself readily to
database modification.

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Pushbutton Programming
New for version 3.0 is the sequence, a com¬
mand file that can be run from a button (see
cursor arrow) included in a data view. This
feature gives Double Helix the equivalent of
macros or program files in other databases.

ments are fairly dramatic. First, users
can determine which views of the data
are updated for a given data change
(as opposed to automatically updating
all windows on all terminals). Second,
user queries on a network are now
stacked so that simpler queries are
processed first. The combination of
these features produces an apparent
network response that’s from 40 to
100 times as fast as Double Helix II.

Another point of interest to net¬
work users, particularly users who are
interested in connecting to minicom¬
puters or mainframes, is that each
Collection can contain a new icon
called Access. Odesta has implemented
the Helix end of a CL/1 connectivity
scheme in which data fields on the
remote computer simply appear as
standard fields in a Helix Relation —
the user doesn’t have to worry about
communications or details of the host
database. The use of this facility, how¬
ever, currently awaits Apple’s imple¬
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and mainframe hosts.

The key new feature for develop¬
ers is the introduction of sequences
(macros, in everyone else’s terminol¬
ogy) that can be attached to buttons
in different database views (see
“Pushbutton Programming”). These
sequences can contain any menu
commands, selected from a list, and
can effectively automate a variety of
routine database chores or allow
direc-tion of most functions from a
single view. This limited concession
to the idea of procedural program¬
ming doesn't really contradict Helix
style, however, because selecting
choices from a list still keeps you
from getting into serious trouble.

For the rest of us the main attrac¬
tion of Double Helix 3.0 is the set of
Quick Start Packages now included
with the database. Covering list man¬
agement, lead tracking, and time and
billing, each is a full-featured appli¬
cation with a guidebook that helps
you construct the application step by
step (quite a bit of the detailed labor
has been done in advance, however).
If you work through the guidebooks —
each one takes a few hours — you will
have not only an understanding of
most database features but the ability
to customize databases. The Quick
Start series is the most serious demon¬
stration to date that Helix really is a
fully relational database that non¬
programmers can use. Odesta should
have included something like this
years ago.

If you have extensive program¬
ming experience in Pascal or in dBase,
you will probably feel more at ease
working with 4th Dimension or
FoxBase+/Mac. If you’re only keep¬
ing simple mailing lists, you would
probably be better served by File¬
Maker. But if you want to have a data¬
base that matches the exact needs of
your personal work or office, one that
you can modify without recourse
to professional consultants, Double
Helix 3 0 is your best bet. As Apple’s
connectivity promises materialize,
Helix might yet become the easiest
way to network to remote databases
as well. Although 3.0 is not a quan¬
tum leap beyond its predecessor,
it’s proof that Odesta is determined
to grow along with the Macintosh.
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Mailing List Organizers

DIRECT MAIL 1.0

Pros: Good search and sort capability; good
record index. Cons: Imported files must
be preconfigured; limited ability to custom¬
ize input template. Company: Preferred
Publishers Requires: Mac Plus; System 6.0;
second disk drive List price: $99.95.

MYMAILLIST 1.1.2

Pros: Imports files easily; prints bar code
and logo on envelopes; DA version
is convenient. Cons: Limited sort func¬
tion; can't search individual fields.
Company: MySoftware. Requires: Mac
51 2K. List price: Version 1.2.1 $49.95.

Both MyMailList and Direct
Mail (which is bundled as an
application and a desk acces¬
sory) store lists of names and
print repons, envelopes, and
labels. In addition. Direct Mail
lets you create mail merge letters and,
through an automatic dialer or a mo¬
dem, it can dial telephone numbers on
your list.

MyMailList has the structured for¬
mat ty pically found in standard data-
base-management systems. Direct
Mail, on the other hand, is a Hyper¬
Card-like, free-form approach to list
management. As a result, Direct Mail
gives you more freedom in setting up
the database, but it’s easier to manipu¬
late the data with MyMailList.

Direct Mail files are user defined.
You type entries into a blank window,
hitting the return key between each
line. You can type any number of lines
and the order of the fields can vary
from record to record. For example, in
one record a person’s name can be
first, in another, a company name can
be first. Once you type a record, you
can, by clicking buttons, go to two
windows: one for telephone numbers,
or one that contains a scrollable field
for notes.

MyMailList uses an input template.
■When you start a new MyMailList file,
you are given a choice of four sets of
13 labeled fields, or Prompts, such as
First Name, Last Name, Company Name.
You can change the name of any
Prompt, but you can t alter the length

of the field. So if you relabel the Last
Name field (which only accommodates
13 characters) to Company Name, you
might find yourself cramped fortyping
space. Once you’ve created your input
template, it remains the same for all
records in that file.

Searching and Sorting

Although setting up MyMailList takes
more time and thought than setting up
Direct Mail, it pays off by providing
more power in searching and sorting
entries than Direct Mail. MyMailList
allows you to search by field name.
With Direct Mail you can search only
entire records, so if you are looking for
clients who live in Leonia, you will also
find clients whose names are Leonia.

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Direct Mail's HyperCard Look
Direct Mail’s routine functions are controlled
using HyperCard-like buttons. The telephone
icon takes you to a window containing
telephone numbers, which can be dialed auto¬
matically. The note paper icon takes you to a
Notes window. The abacus icon displays
statistics about the current "book," or file, and
the magnifying glass and index card icons lead
to search and sort.

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MyMailList Selection Boxes
The MyMailList input window has four Cat¬
egory check boxes. You can label the boxes, as
in the example above, with such names as
Republican or Democrat. You can then display,
print, or delete only checked records. In this
screen, Category 1, labeled Republican, is
chosen as the only Display Criteria, therefore,
only Republican records will be displayed.

MyMailList lets you sort by any
field. Direct Mail only allows sorts by
either first or last word in the first or
second field, or by zip code.

Once you’ve entered a search crite¬
rion, you can flag the records and print,
display, or delete all records that meet
that criterion. Both programs take into
account multiple criteria through re¬
peated searches. For example, you can
flag all California addresses, then am a
second search for Massachusetts, thus
generating a flagged list for both states.
MyMailList also allows you to deflag
records meeting a criterion. Using this
feature, you can generate a list of all
California records but exclude San
Francisco records.

If you prefer to thumb through the
list rather than search for specific rec¬
ords, MyMailList is easier to use. It dis¬
plays two records at a time, compared
with Direct Mail’s one record, and has a
standard Mac scroll bar that allows you
to move directly to the middle of a list.
Direct Mail uses HyperCard-like for¬
ward and back arrows.

MyMailList offers a third method of
accessing records. It can display an in¬
dex of records alphabetized by any
field. Click on any item in the index and
you get the complete record. You can
also find items in the index by scrolling
or searching through a two-column al¬
phabetic list, which allows you to se¬
lect, say, the letters MA and get to that
section of the alphabetized index.

It is more cumbersome to delete
duplicates in MyMailList, but the re¬
sult is more accurate than in Direct
Mail. With Direct Mail, you simply se¬
lect Delete Duplicates from the Special
submenu , and all records that are exact
duplicates will be deleted. But variant
names such as Larry and Lawrence,
misspellings, and even a stray blank
space result in records being assumed
as unique. MyMailList looks for dupli¬
cates only in your son field or fields. It
then flags these Candidates for Purg¬
ing, allowing you to review the list be¬
fore you delete.

Importing and Exporting Files

MyMailList imports data from File¬
Maker, tab-delimited, or comma-delim¬
ited files. Direct Mail imports from tab-
delimited, DAtabase, orQuickDex files.
It is more difficult to import files in
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MyMailList. First you have to set up an
import list with column names that
match the Prompt titles in MyMailList.

You can import files into Direct
Mail without preconfiguring. Once you
have imported the files, you can ar¬
range all the records at once by forcing
or removing a line break between any
two fields; if your imported file has
first and last name on two separate
lines, you can join them. You can also
select which fields appear in Direct
Mail’s three windows: the main win¬
dow, the telephone window, and the
notes window (the same field can
appear in more than one window.)

Direct Mail exports in tab-delim¬
ited text format or to 12 word proces¬
sors and databases including 4th Di¬
mension, FullWrite, Word, Works, and
Excel. MyMailList exports in tab- or
comma-delimited text files or to Word
or WriteNow.

Output

Both programs allow you to print a
table or any size label or envelope.
Direct Mail, however, does a much
better job than MyMailList of printing
envelopes. With Direct Mail you can
import an icon or PICT image, place a
message on the envelope, and auto¬
matically print a postal bar code for
records containing a 9-digit zip code.

One of Direct Mail’s strongest fea¬
tures is its mail merge screen. In it,
you can type a letter (or import text).
At any point you can merge in any
line from the main window or the
notes window, a phone number, or the
current date or time.

The weakest part of both programs
is the documentation. MyMailList’s
manual, which comes in hard copy,
lacks an index, however, the company
says new documentation should be
out by the time you read this. Direct
Mail’s manual comes on disk but can’t
be imported to a word processor for
searches.

MyMailList has no online help but
does have a nonsearchable list of in¬
structions. Direct Mail’s help screen
allows you to click on buttons to learn
their function but does not provide
help with the menu commands, which
control Direct Mail’s more advanced
features.

For maintaining structured mail¬
ing lists, MyMailList is the better value

and the stronger program. However, if
you will be importing large unstruc¬
tured lists, Direct Mail can save you a
lot of configuration work. If you need
the telephone dialer or mail merge
functions, and you don’t use Multi-
Finder, I would recommend Direct
Mail’s DA version because it makes cut¬
ting and pasting addresses from other
applications very easy. Otherwise, I’d
choose MyMailList . — Lawrence Stevens

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Text Editor for Programmers

PREDITOR 1.0

Pros: Multiple buffers; language-specific
formatting; bracket balancing. Cons: Lacks
support for some programming
languages. Company: Evatac Software.

Requires: Mac 51 2K. List price: $90.

A simple editor with multiple
windows and the ability to
support the Macintosh’s stan¬
dard point-and-click interface can be
built in about 16K of memory. That is
all a programmer needs. Evatac’s
Preditor is about ten times larger, and it
is filled with many of the things that a
programmer might want. Preditor’s
user interface is full of controls, click
boxes, tiny icons, and menus, all of
which enable you to reformat text and
move about quickly and effortlessly
within the program you are develop¬
ing. The macro language for defining
controls and functions is a complete
programming language unto itself. And
everything from the help box to the line
counter is well thought through and
well executed.

* File Edit Option Modify Special Window To

Preditor Controls

Preditor's window with ten additional controls
around the border.

Effortless Controls

As in most applications, the features
in the editor’s main window include
scroll bars, a resizing control, a close
box, and a zoom box, as well as ten
extra controls for more precise move¬
ment through text. Each control has its
own little icon and performs a fre¬
quently desired task. You can, for in¬
stance, mark sections of your program
for easy return while editing; collapse
and expand sections of the text; jump
to a specified line in your program;
split your editing window into sections
as you can in aspreadsheet; control the
scrolling speed in both windows; and
get information about the document
you have open, including what type of
document it is, the last time it was
modified, and how many lines per page
it will take up when printed.

I found surprises and extra fea¬
tures around every corner. Describing
all of them would take as much space
as the 75-page manual, which is suc¬
cinct without being incomplete (all of
the information is also available on¬
line). In general, the manual is easy to
use and extensively cross-referenced,
but I would have liked a few more
examples in the section about macros.

Macro Language

While the features in the editor’s main
window are mostly for moving around
a file easily, the macro language in¬
cluded in Preditor supports all of the
constructs of a simple programming
language like C. The macro language
has global and local variables, For and
While loops, If statements, and the
ability to call other macros that will
return results. Selected text can be
passed back and forth as a parameter
within macros, and practically every
function of Preditor can be called from
a macro. One clever macro is called
NextMPWError. It opens up an MPW
file, finds the error message, and then
locates the error in the file and scrolls
the file. My only complaints about the
macro language are that it is slow and
the syntax relies upon cryptic charac¬
ters like $.

You can tell Preditor to highlight all
of the reserved words from either C,
Pascal, Modula-2, C + + , Basic, Fortran,
or Preditor’s own macro language while
printing. Tags, a special feature that
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REVIEWS

can be run within MPW or as a separate
application, saves all of the names of
procedures or functions and the loca¬
tions of their definitions in a file. Select¬
ing the name of the procedure and
starting the Tags command moves the
editor to the location of the definition,
even if it is in another file.

Preditor’s support for different
languages is a hit ad hoc, however. The
print routine can highlight reserved
words, for instance, but the macro lan¬
guage can’t access this information.
Preditor also lacks an indentation fea¬
ture to automatically format code, al¬
though it would be possible to create
one in the macro language.

Overall, however, Preditor is an
elegant and very sophisticated editor
for the hard-core programmer.
— Peter Wayner

At press time, Evatac announced an
upgrade, Preditor 1. 1, which will in¬
clude user-definable programming-
language recognition, printing en¬
hancements, storable formatting
codes, and other editing features.

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3-D Graphing and Presentation Program

VISUAL BUSINESS
NO. 5 1.02

Pros: Well-implemented color and 3-D
effects; strong output handling.
Cons: Missing important functions; poorly
organized manual; illogical menu com¬
mands. Company: Visual Business
Systems. Requires: Mac II; 2MB RAM;

8-bit video card; color monitor;
System 6.0.2; hard disk 4MB to 6MB
RAM recommended. List price: $395.

Although desktop presenta-
tion programs provide for the
effective use of color, they
offer limited graphing capabilities. Vis¬
ual Business No. 5 attempts to remedy
this situation by creating compelling
color images directly from your data.

Visual Business No. 5 is an object-
oriented QuickDraw graphing pro¬
gram that offers bar, line, pie, area,
and scatter charts with full color con¬
trol. Graphs can be 2-Dor 3-D with full
object (including text) rotation and

Color Presentation Graph with Shaded
Background

Visual Business No. 5 permits some interesting
effects for color presentation materials.

perspective support. Backgrounds can
be composed of color solids, blends,
and spotlighting from a single config¬
urable light source. Visual Business No.
3 includes a separate Output Manager
for high-quality color output.

Putting Color in Perspective

Cricket Graph already offers strong
graphing capabilities, with some data
manipulation and limited color sup¬
port. Visual Business No. 5 emulates
Cricket Graph in operation but offers
more striking color and 3-D effects,
without any data manipulation. You
import data through the Clipboard in
Excel or Wingz format, or as a SYLK file.
Close the data window and a color
graph appears — simple and fast. The
graph can be saved in one of the pro¬
gram’s spreadsheet formats, or as a
PICT file that allows you to export graphs
to other programs via the Clipboard.
Visual Business does not provide tem¬
plates, so you must draw each slide
from scratch.

The lack of an Undo command is
particularly onerous. And I was not im¬
pressed by the toolbox. While com¬
mands such as Send to Back/Bring to
Front exist, commands for grouping
and nudging or placing objects are not
included. Few keystroke equivalents
for menu commands are offered.

The program’s manual is most
annoying. It offers suggestions, covers
all the topics, but does so in an illogical
order and without referring to illustra¬
tions. Even the installation procedure
is poorly explained.

Visual Business allows for the use
of the full color palette with 256 colors
on screen. Changing colors, however,
is confusing. A configurable color pal¬
ette is provided, but logical color sets

like those in PowerPoint are not pro¬
vided with Visual Business No. 5.

I liked Visual Business’s color ef¬
fects and 3-D manipulations, and I was
impressed with the images it produced.
Color blends in several directions,
spotlighting, object rotation, and per¬
spective control are all well imple¬
mented. The program achieves type
effects with URW QuickDraw outline
fonts. An additional 22-font package is
available for $ 195. The program would
be stronger if it worked with the large
commercial type libraries, particularly
PostScript and QuickDraw.

Spooling Around

An Output Manager is included for
several popular color thermal-transfer
printers and digital film recorders. Any
PICT or PICT2 file can be handled, and
all Apple printers as well as some Post¬
Script printers are supported. The
Output Manager converts vector ob¬
jects to raster images, and uses the
outline fonts to image text.

The Output Manager (with its Next-
like interface) is essentially a print
spooler. Files are written to disk, and
spooled to the printer in a configurable
print queue. You will need a minimum
of 2 megabytes of RAM to operate the
Output Manager (4MB to 6MB is rec¬
ommended), and you will need a hard
disk with 6MB of free disk space for
spooled files. The Output Manager al¬
lows you to create batch jobs for unat¬
tended output and solves the problem
of driving multiple color devices.

The Output Manager creates slide
shows and supports several aspect ra¬
tios for the different output formats.
However, the more expensive ($795)
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faster, supports 32-bit QuickDraw, and
comes with all 35 laser fonts.

I cannot recommend Visual Busi¬
ness No. 5 for most Mac users. Your
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and presentation programs you can
find, or on a less-expensive, more-
complete graphing program.

If, however, you create full-color
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money. — Barrie Sosinsky

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File-Searching Utilities

FINDSWELL2.01

Pros: Fast searching; remembers
recently found files; uses only 39K of disk
space; searches Get Info comments.
Cons: Can't search for files by date or size;
few navigation and disk-management
features Company: Working Software.
Requires: Mac Plus. Hard disk
recommended. List price: $59.95.

SHORTCUT 1.0.1

Pros: Many convenient disk- and folder-
navigation features; searches within (and
can decompress) Stufflt archives;
excellent online help. Cons: Slower and
needs more disk space than Findswell.
Company: Aladdin Systems. Requires: Mac
Plus; System 6.0. List price: $79.95.

Admit it, your hard disk isn’t
organized as efficiently as it
could be. You’ve probably
created a filing scheme that
takes advantage of the Mac’s
hierarchical filing system,
but you still find yourself shuffling
folders more often than you’d like.

The solution? A file-searching util¬
ity like Aladdin Software’s Shortcut or
Working Software’s Findswell. Both
of these products are startup docu¬
ments (INITs) that modify the stan¬
dard Open and Save dialog boxes all
Mac programs use. Although Findswell
is quite a bit faster, Shortcut does so
much more that it’s earned a perma¬
nent place in my System Folder (see
“Searching Comparisons”).

Out in the Open

Findswell displays a dialog box that
lets you create a new folder or begin
searching. Choose the latter option,
and another dialog box appears. To lo¬
cate a file, type a string of text that
appears in its name and click on Find.

Findswell also lets you search for
text located in Get Info comments. But
Findswell’s designers didn’t take this
feature far enough: you can’t display
the Get Info comments that Findswell
locates.

As Findswell locates files, their
names appear in a scroll box. To open
a file, simply double-click on its name.

You can also instruct Findswell to per¬
manently remember the file by clicking
on a small icon that appears next to the
file’s name. Remembered files appear
in Findswell’s dialog box each timeyou
open it, giving you an easy way to ac¬
cess frequently used files.

Shortcut to Success

Shortcut takes the disk name that nor¬
mally appears above the Eject button
that appears in the Open dialog box
and turns it into a menu. Shortcut’s file¬
searching talents go far beyond Finds-
well’s. While Shortcut can’t search for
Get Info text, it can search for files that
were created or modified between
certain dates. Better still, it can look for
files located in archives within Stufflt.

Shortcut also remembers the files
and folders it finds. Shortcut displays
the names of remembered files in its
Open File submenu, while remem¬
bered folders appear in the Go To Fold¬
er submenu. The latter submenu pro¬
vides a wonderfully swift way to move
between folders, even ones nested
within other folders. It’s like being able
to leap from one branch to another,
instead of having to climb to the bot¬
tom of the tree and then back up again
to get to a different branch.

Shortcut’s menu also boasts a Get
Info command that lets you delete and
rename files and view their size and
creation dates. Advanced users can
also use the Get Info dialog box to
change a file’s type and creator codes.
And if you’re working with an Apple-
Share file server, you can use the Get
Info command to view and change

access privileges for folders.

Shortcut also offers an Erase com¬
mand, although to access it you have
to press the Shift key while opening
Shortcut’s menu. For extra security,
you can use the Secure Erase option,
which not only deletes a file, but also
replaces its contents with zeros.

Finding the Best Buy

Both Findswell and Shortcut are ele¬
gantly designed, easy to use, and re¬
plete with keyboard shortcuts. Only
Shortcut lets you change its keyboard
shortcuts, however. Findswell turned
in faster searching times, and that may
be important to you if your hard disk
stores more than 40MB. Findswell also
uses only 39K of disk space, compared
with Shortcut’s 356K (165K without
the online help file), which may be an
issue if you use a floppy start-up disk.

But for most people, Shortcut’s
extra bulk and its slightly higher price
aren’t significant. Shortcut is more than
a file-searching utility; it’s a copilot that
helps you navigate the channels and
eddies of a hard disk.

Finally, remember that disk-man¬
agement desk accessories, such as CE
Software’s DiskTop and Electronic
Arts’ DiskTools Plus, also provide ex¬
cellent — indeed, superior — file-search¬
ing features. However, they do force
you to make a trip to the Apple menu.
If you want to locate files and manage
disks from within the confines of an
Open dialog box, Shortcut is the best
way to do it. — Jim Heid

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Searching Comparisons

Features Findswell Shortcut

Search by name • _ • _

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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

211

If seeing is believing. Adobe Type
Manager '- is making believers out of a
whole new world of Macintosh’ users.

The kind of long-suffering users
who’ve had to accept the fact that the type
on their printed pages has always looked
as jagged as the text on their screens.

If you’re one of those people, you know
exactly what we mean.

But you should also know it never
has to look that way again.

Adobe Type Manager converts that
difficult-to-read text into smooth, legi¬
ble type. On your Macintosh screen

and, more importantly, out of your Apple
ImageWriter’ Hewlett-Packard Desk-
Writer™ or other QuickDraw™ devices,
including film records and fax machines.

And this exciting new program does
it all for a mere $99.

Which means you don’t
need a high-cost printer to
produce high-quality text.

That’s because Adobe
Type Manager is based on
Adobe’s own PostScript*
page description language,
the technology used by

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upgrade

the world’s leading laser printers.

Nor do you need a lot of time to insts
it or power to run it.

You can install Adobe Type Manage
by simply dragging it into your system
folder. And since it requires only one
megabyte of memory — and supports
virtually all Macintosh software —
every user has what it takes to
| look better.

Once you see the difference
Adobe Type Manager makes with
its 13 resident fonts, you’ll want to
build your own high-quality type library.

Adobe, the Adobe logo. PostScnp< and the PostScript logo are registered trademarks and Adobe Type Manager is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated m the USA ImageWriter LaserWriter and Macintosh are registered tradema

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because, the more typefaces you have, the professional-quality typefaces in the

nore clearly you’ll be able
o express your ideas.

You can start with the
2 additional fonts in the
'lus Pack for just $198.
hat way you’ll have the
ame 35 outline fonts in-
luded in the LaserWriter’
rr and NTX printers.

Then if you really
rant to expand your
ptions, you can choose
■om the more than 550

Times*

Roman. Iialu R<*M & Bold Italic

Helvetica*

Regular Oblique BoW A Bold Oblique

Courier

Medium, Oblique-, Bold & Bold Oblxqva

Symbol

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To get you looking better, Adobe Type
Manager includes outline versions of these 13
Macintosh fonts. And when you want more,
simply purchase the Plus Pack or choose any
of the 550 fonts from the Adobe Type Library.

Adobe' Type Library, as
well as other PostScript
Type 1 fonts.

And since most Type
1 fonts are supported
by Adobe Type Manager,
they can be scaled to
virtually any size or set
in any style, without
losing their integrity.

In fact, the only thing
you’ll lose is your
jagged edges.

So call 1-800-344-8335 for the name
of your nearest Adobe Authorized Dealer
(outside the U.S.A. and Canada, call your
local distributor).

Because it’s easy to see how you can
start looking better.

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Look for this symbol on computers printers and other
products that include PostScript software from Adobe
Systems It's your guarantee of quality and compattukty

xJ QuickDraw is a trademark ol Apple Computer. Inc DeskWriter is a trademark of Hewlett Packard Co 'Helvetica and Times are trademarks of Linotype AG and/or its subsidiaries © 1909 Adobe Systems Incorporated All rights reserved

LOOK

BETTER

This is actual, unretouched ImageWriter output at
80 pt and 12 pt. sizes using Adobe Type Manager.

These

unretouched
photos make
it easy to see
how much
betteryour
text can

look with

Adobe Type
Manager

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When you need

a change of face.

You bought ATM™ to clean up your text; now add TvpeAlign
to throw your text a curve— or give it a newr slant. And do
it so intuitively, you’ll wonder why everyone doesn’t do
it our way.

TvpeAlign is incredibly easy to use— no special draw¬
ing programs or skills needed. Just choose a tool to draw
an arc, straight line or freehand curve. Type on the line
you just drew— your words appear instantly on screen.
Adjust the spacing between letters and words until it’s
just the way you like it. Then rotate, manipulate, distort
to your heart’s content.

Since TvpeAlign is a desk accessory; you install it
once in your Macintosh® computer, then use it in just about
any application. And you can print your creation on any
ATM-supported printer or other device, including Apple*
ImageWriters? LaserWriters® and Hewlett-Packard* Desk-
Writers* and Paintjets* Of course, TvpeAlign works with any
Adobe® PostScript® font, too.

Let’s face it. If you have ATM, you need new TvpeAlign,
too. Especially with a suggested retail price of only $99.95.

To find out where you can buy it, call Emerald Citv
Software at 1-800-223-0417, in CA 415-324-8080.

TypeAlign — a new desk accessory exclusively for

Adobe Type Manager "owners.

TypeAlign is a trademark and Emerald City Software is a registered trademark of
Emerald City Software. Adobe and PostScript are registered trademarks and
Adobe Type Manager and ATM are trademarks of .Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Apple, Image'JPriter, Macintosh and latserW riter are registered trademarks of
Apple Computer, Inc HE DeskWriter and PaintJet are registered trademarks of
Hewlett-Packard. Inc. © 1989 Emerald City Software. All rights reserved

WINDOW SHOPPING

by Lawrence Stevens

This month I look at three teaching
aids: one prepares children for reading,
another helps high-schoolers learn
geography, and a third teaches college
students collaborative writing. I also
review a guide to proper English.

The Electronic English Handbook 1.02

The Electronic English Handbook
($29 95 from Technology Training As¬
sociates) packs into a DA a relatively
comprehensive English guide. You can
find complete rules, with examples, of
punctuation marks, capitalization, use
of numbers, and abbreviations. The DA
offers sample spelling rules, clarifies
some frequently confused words, and
specifies bibliographic and parentheti¬
cal documentation form.

Most of the sections contain a
complete set of rules. There are rules
for commas, quotations, capitalization,
and bibliographic documentation. The
program falls short in only two catego¬
ries: spelling (7 rules) and frequently
misused words (29 words). In both
these cases the chances of finding the
rule you need are so slim, it’s not even
worth accessing the DA.

All the information in The Elec¬
tronic English Handbook is, of course,
available in guidebooks, which are
much more comprehensive and often
less expensive. Because an online guide
is more convenient, this DA should
have provided a few more features to
make it easy to find rules.

You can access each section via
one of the 23 buttons along the bottom
of the window. Clicking on the button
labeled C brings you to the capitaliza¬
tion section; the button with a semico¬
lon (;) on it brings you to the semicolon
section, and so on. You can use key¬
board shortcuts to move to specific
rules in the Word Usage or Common
Usage Problems sections. For example,
typing Shift-D brings you to misused
words beginning with D.

However, some of the sections do
not have keyboard shortcuts. You must
use the scroll bar or the grabber tool
to locate specific rules. This can be
cumbersome when searching through
9 rules for quotation marks or 28 rules
for bibliographic references. The prob¬
lem is compounded by the fact that
when you use the scroll arrows, the
screen display is not redrawn until you
stop scrolling so you have to work your
way through the rules using the grab¬
ber tool. But for those of you who don’t
want to look away from the screen in
the midst of a writing project, this is a
useful guide.

King Frog

King Frog ($29. 95 from Actreo Soft¬
ware), a HyperCard storybook for kids
aged 4 to 7, portrays an engrossing
story using wonderful graphics and
sound along with credible animation.
Boys fall off a boat and splash into a lake
(see “Trying to Net King Frog”); tug¬
boats move slowly through the harbor
tooting as they go. This is the most
attractive, pedagogically valuable, and

reasonably priced interactive story¬
book I have seen.

The narration, which is both read
aloud and printed on the screen, tells
of a frog who is king of a swamp. One
day, some young frogs play a trick on
him by cutting the stem of the lily pad
on which he is sleeping. King Frog
continues dozing while he floats out of
the pond into a river, which winds
through a city, and finally he ends up in
the ocean. King Frog likes the wide
expanse of sea, and he proclaims to the
giant ocean creatures that he will be
their new king. But their hilarious
laughter infuriates and humiliates him.
He then paddles his way back upstream
until he returns to his swamp, where
he remains happily ever after.

Manyofthe objects in thedrawings
are actually buttons, which your child
can find through trial and error or by
clicking a symbol that highlights the
buttons. Some buttons start an anima¬
tion, others move you to the next
frame. Most important, each word of
the story is also a button. Clicking on a
word causes it to be read aloud.

King Frog offers children a wel¬
come break from having to depend on
parents to read stories. Besides, this
stack doesn’t turn two pages at a time.
(continues)

Trying to Net King Frog
These boys lean over too far while trying to net
King Frog. Their canoe wobbles and finally they
splash into the river. The words at the bottom are
read when the screen first appears. Clicking on
any word causes it to be read again.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

215

™ WINDOW SHOPPING

Collaborative Writer 1.0

Collaborative Writer ($249 for a net¬
work license from Research Design
Associates. $69.95 for single version) is
a college-level program intended to
teach collaborative writing — the pro¬
cess of creating a memo, instructional
manual, proposal, or a report in a
group. The program describes four
types of collaborative writing. In the
first the supervisor assigns the work,
the group plans and drafts it, and the
supervisor then revises and edits it. In
the second, the group plans the docu¬
ment and one person drafts, revises,
and edits it. In the third, one person
plans and drafts the document and the
group revises and edits it. In the last, all
the members of the group plan, draft,
revise, and edit the document.

The program walks you through
the steps. It begins by describing how
to determine the general purpose of a
project and then asks you to define
your purpose. Next it helps you char¬
acterize your audience and deter¬
mine the type of content that would
be appropriate. After you read all the
information about each step, the pro¬
gram asks a question, such as “Who is
your audience?” or suggests an action
such as “Brainstorm a possible sum¬
mary statement.”

You answer the question, take
notes on the instructions, and build the
document in the Notes window, which
appears at the bottom of the screen.
You can have any number of Notes
windows open at a time (see “Collabo¬
rative Writer Windows”).

The only way to position the Notes
window is by using the mouse. How¬
ever, by selecting Transfer to Word
Processor, the Notes Window grows
to full screen size and acquires basic

* File Plan Draft Reulte Package Tutorial

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Reading Patterns

Don't assume that your readers will rood through all of the instructions
carefully before beginning the first step (Did you read through oil of
the documentation before using this software-?) Because most readers
don t read the entire document before beginning, you should think of the
best chronological seouence that your audience could follow

?? What specific instructional sequence do you think would
work best for your audience?

F7) n»

Tne user* of this program will be. for the most part, experienced Mac users
riany will want a 'quick start' method I suggest that wt begin by including
at most on* page that outline* some of the capabilities of the package Next
we move on to the more difficult menu items- -those which most users will |

Collaborative Writer Windows
The upper window provides instructions for a
collaborative writing project. Most instruc¬
tional screens end with a question, which you
can answer in the Notes window (bottom).

word processing capabilities. The Word
Processor lets you cut, copy, and paste
and choose double- or single-spaced
lines, but nothing else.

Collaborative Writer is meant to be
used on a network. Group members
access the program’s instructions and
accompanying Notes, make revisions
or add comments, and pass the docu¬
ment to the next participant. If you are
not on a network, you can pass the
documents around on disk.

The program’s authors, who are on
the faculty of the Department of
Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota
at Minneapolis, have impeccable cre¬
dentials in collaborative writing. The
on-screen instructional material is clear
and concise. But the rest of the pro¬
gram leaves a lot to be desired.

The biggest problem is the lack of
all but the most rudimentary text-edit¬
ing features, but there are other diffi¬
culties as well. The Notes and Word
Processor windows lack zoom boxes.
You can resize them only by using the
resize box on the lower right of the
window. And because the instructions
window, which takes up two-thirds of
the screen, cannot be resized, it limits
your Mac desktop arrangement. You
cannot copy text from the instructions
window, so you can’t paste information
from it in the Notes window.

Because of these shortcomings, it
would have been far better to provide
the instructions on a DA (or even on
hard copy) so students can use their
own word processors. While I give this
program an A for content, I’m afraid I
have to give it a D for form.

State-Smart HyperCard Stack 2.0

State-Smart ($75 from HyPerFormance)
is a HyperCard high school-level tuto¬
rial on U.S. geography. This stack con¬
tains outline maps of each state, con¬
tour and topographical maps of U.S.
regions, and maps showing state facts.

As with all good HyperCard stacks,
the advantage of State-Smart lies not so
much in its information — which can be
found in any classroom atlas — but in
how easy it is to use. You get to the
various State-Smart cards by clicking
on attractive and pictorial ly descriptive
buttons or by clicking on map locations
(see “State-Smart Directory”).

For example, to get to a State Facts
and Figures section, you select a state’s

218 MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

State-Smart Directory
By clicking on any state in the map on this
directory card, you get to its State Facts and
Figures card. The buttons along the bottom
and side lead you to other screens.

name on the directory card, which is a
map of the United States. Each state has
a State Facts and Figures card contain¬
ing a map of the state along with a list of
information such as the state bird,
flower, population, area, and capital.
Four radio buttons let you toggle be¬
tween viewing the population of major
cities in that state, population of coun¬
ties, zip codes, and area codes. Unfor¬
tunately, the zip code list doesn’t spec¬
ify the cities or towns, and the area
code list specifies only one town
(sometimes small) for the area code.

The topography section offers a set
of maps that depict waterways, moun¬
tain ranges, and major cities. The con¬
tour section shows elevation. Selecting
a region in the national topography or
contour map zooms you to the region
card. You can move from region to
region by clicking on directional ar¬
rows on the compass icon.

State-Smart also has a quiz feature,
which displays State Facts and Figures
cards with a piece of information, such
as the state capital, left blank. The stu¬
dents must select the correct answer
from a multiple choice list. The quiz
can be set to ask random questions, or
to focus on a particular region or par¬
ticular types of questions such as state
population and capitals. State-Smart
displays a percentage score after the
quiz is completed.

The program makes life easy for stu¬
dent and teacher: the on-screen teach¬
er’s guide suggests a number of inter¬
esting assignments; and the help screen
explains in minutes how to work the
program. State-Smart also might moti¬
vate students in U.S. geography. □

See Where to Buy or circle 708 I Collaborative Writer). 721
(The Electronic English Handbook). 75 1 / King Frog). 801
(State-Smart) on reader service card

The table

Apple would have designed,
had they gone into
the furniture business.

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Any company with the vision to create a
product as elegant and useful as the Macintosh*
would have hit it big in any industry;

Fortunately, Apple* chose computers.

We, on the other hand, chose to make
furniture. More specifically the Madable.

Like the Macintosh itself, the Madable was
created to put information at your fingertips,
quickly and easily. We accomplish this by
thinking of the workspace not as an inflexible
monolith, but as a network of individual
surfaces onto which you can place each of
your Mac components, like your printer,
modem, external drive, mouse, even manuals.
Everything with plenty of elbow7 room, easily
within reach, and there when you need it.

Next, each surface tilts to optimize your
eve-to-screen and hand-to-component

efficiency. Rest assured that as your comfort
increases, so does your productivity.

Finally, there’s the overall design — sleek,
contemporary, and mindful of the future of
your computing needs. Because Madable s
surface panels can be arranged, your
workspace can accommodate any model of
Macintosh, from the Plus to the Mac II ... to
who knows what.

Surprisingly enough, all of this Mac-like
versatility and European beechwood framing
is more than affordable: only $299 for
Madable and $139 for the optional roll-awav
cabinet (doubles as a LaserWriter stand): $279
for the matching, ergonomically balanced
chair: lateral file cabinet $239; bookshelves
$119; and twro-door cabinet $159-

Madable. It’s the workspace that organizes
the tools that organize your life. And it’s
available by calling (800) 722-6263 which,
by the way, is not Apple’s phone number.

Madable.

The ultimate Mac peripheral.

STo order your Madable or
for more information call:

r^cLl TOLL FREE (800) 722-6263
inWA state (206) 481-5434

Prices do not include U.P.S. shipping.

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15 function keys, 6 page control keys, and a T-
style cursor pad. Includes 101-keys desk accesso¬
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full usage of function keys. Available in ADB and
non-ADB versions. Mac lOl Keyboard by Data¬
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age that allows virtually any application on Mac,
or use of alternative printers. Including HP Laser-
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DeskJet and DeskJet Plus. Use MacPrint 1.1 for
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Microphone II v3.0 . 215

Solutions, International

BackFaxvl.02 . 124

Synergy Software

VersaTerm . 88

VersaTerm -Pro . 174

Tactic Software

Font Share . 149

Traveling Software

LAP-LINK . 81

Somak Software

ScriptEdit . 49

Spinnaker Software

Olduvai Plus . 109

Symantec

Think C . 155

Think Pascal . 95.

Just Enough Pascal . 47

Symmetry

HyperDA [Reg 512k) . 49

TENpoIntO

FocalPointll . 117.

the Result Software

Dialoger . 69.

Timeworks

Hyperworks Organizer . 57.

T.M.L.

TML Pascal II v3.0 . 109

Trendware Corporation

HyperTools 1 or 2 . 52.

XCAL . 77.

Zed core

ZBasic 5.0 . 87.

Spelling & Grammar Checkers

Deneba Software

Spelling Coach 3.1 Professional . 115.

Big Thesaurus . 59.

Electronic Arts

Thunder! II . 52.

•^ivi.iTkwr-iir.Tr'ri

Maxell 3)4" DS/DD Disks (box of 10) . 15.

Verbatim 3)4" DS/DD Disks (box of 10) . 14

3M 3)4" DS/DD Disks (box of 70) . 15.

High Density 3)4" Diskettes

Sony 3)4" DS/HD (10) . 29.

Verbatim 3)4" DS/HD (10) . 29

Peripheral Land

Turbo 40 Cartridge . 109

Ribbons

Available in Black , Blue. Brown. Green.

Orange. Purple, Red. Yellow, Silvers Gold

ImageWriter Ribbon . 4.

Image Writer Black six pack . 20.

ImageWriter Rainbow Pack (6 Colors) . 20.

ImageWriter 11-Four Color Ribbon . 9.

I mageWriter LQ Black . 17.

ImageWriter LQ Four Color . 20.

Seikosha Ribbon Black . 6

Printers, Digitizers & Monitors

Aapps

Micro TV (Macll) . 275.

Complete PC

Complete Half Page Scanner 309.

Complete Full Page Scanner . 749

Cutting Edge

Two-page Display Monochrome Monitor . 935.

Digital Vision

Computer Eyes- Mac . 195

Computer Eyes- Macll Color . 349

GDT Softworks

Print-Link Collection . 59.

JetLmk Express . 89

Koala Technologies Corp.

MacVision 2 0 [Digitizer) . 219.

Mac Director . 109.

Kurta

IS ADB Tablet 8)4 x 1 1 . 245

IS ADB Tablet 12 x 12 . 359

IS ADB Tablet 12 x 17 . 585

Cordless 4 Button Cursor . 65

Apple Color Monitor or Full Page Display

Polarizing Filter . 63.

Two Page Display Polarizing Filter . 135.

Mobius

Fanny Mac QT [Beige or Platinum) . 59.

Mouse Systems

A+ Mouse [MacPIus) . 59.

A+ ADB Mouse [Mac SE/Mac II) . 83.

Practical Solutions

Cordless Mouse . 99.

Targus

Imagewriter II Carry Case Blk . 43.

Macintosh Plus Carry Case Blk . 53

Deluxe MacPIus-XKB Blk . 69.

Networking Software & Hardware

CompuServe

CompuServe Starter Kit . 24

CompuServe Navigator v2.1 . 39.

Data Viz

MacLink Plus/Translator . 99.

MacLink Plus with Cable . 119.

Farrallon

PhoneNET Din 8 or DB9 . 33.

Timbuktu . 95.

Traffic Watch . 129.

Timbuktu Remote . 129

Portable Pack . 339.

Free so ft

White Knight v. 11 . 85

Infosphere

Liaison . 169

Insigna

SoftPC vl.3 . 245

Microcom Software

Carbon Copy (Twin Pack) . 179

Microsoft

Microsoft Mail Mac Work Station . 84

Microsoft Mail Mac Server . 255.

Nuvotech

TurboNet ST (Din8 or DB9) . 30.

NuvoLink SC . 329

Lundeen & Associates

WorksPlus Spell . 55.

Microlytics, Inc.

Word Finder [Synonym Finder) . 34

Electronic Word Finder . 59.

DataStor Personal Organizer . 95

Sensible Software

Sensible Grammar or BookEnds . 51

Working Software

Spellswell 2.0 . 45

Exclusively for ATM owners, change your type
face with TypeAlign. Rotate, wrap, skew and kern
type, then add special effects like outlines and
see it on the screen. Print on ATM -supported
printers including Imagewriters. TypeAlign is a
desk accessory easy to install, works with all
major applications and Adobe PostScript fonts.
TypeAlign for ATM by Emerald City ($62.00)

IT’S AT PROGRAMS PLUS

Idd s Dreams offers a precision drawing tool for
scaled drawings, illustrations, presentations and
graphics. Dreams offers zoom, rotation, layers,
dimensioning, symbol libraries and vast array of
drawing and illustration tools. Merge shapes to¬
gether. cut edges of objects using other objects
as templates... glue lines and curves together to
form unique shapes to be filled with colors or
patterns. Dreams by Innovative Data Design
($299.00)

Numbers & DataBase
Management

Abacus Concepts

StatView II (Mac+, SE. II

W/68020& 688811 . 279.

StatView SE+ Graphics . 199

Acius

4th Dimension v2 0 . 469.

4th Dimension (Free Upgrade) . 339

A.E.C.

AEC Information Manager . 405.

Paracomp

Milo . 155.

Preferred Publishers

Database . 69

ProVue

Panorama . 199

Satorl Software

Bulk Mailer 3. 3 . 78.

Bulk Mailer Plus . 185.

SoftStream

Endeavour Planning . 95

Symmetry

KeyPlan . 225

Synergy

KaleidaGraph . 139

Systat

Systat v3.0 ( Specify MacPIus,

SE or Mac l() . 485

Fastat . 165.

Word Processors & Desktop

Publishing

A.E.C.

FastTrack Schedule . 114

Adobe

ATM (Adobe Typeface Manager) . 56.

ATM + (Adobe Typeface ManagerPlus

Pak) . 109.

Adobe Illustrator w/ ATM . 279.

Streamline . 229.

Adobe Collector's Ed. 2 . 129.

TrueForm . 225.

Newsletters . 229.

Forms & Schedules . 279.

Presentations . 279.

Adobe Type Libraries

vol 1 Thru 117 (Each) . CALL

Advanced Software

DocuComp . 88

A Lasting Impression

ResumExpert . 7. . . . 38.

Aldus Corporation

Color Extension . 135.

Aldus Persuasion or Freehand . 339.

PageMaker 3.01 . 385

Altsys, Corp.

Fontographer 3.0 . 249

Olduvai Software

Read -It! OCR Personal

. 125

Read -It' OCR 2.1 .

239

Paragon Concepts

Nisusv3 . .

245

Portfolio Systems

DynoDex .

Special 89

Power Up

Calendar Creator .

Address Book Plus (Book Binder)

Fast Forms

Preferred Publishers

Vantage or Exposure .

. 54

Direct Mail

Prescience

Expressionist 2 03 .

Quark, Inc.

QuarkXPress v2. 1 2 .

459

QuarkStyle

169

Silicon Beach

Personal Press .

199

SoftStream

UltraSpec .

Spinnaker

Top Honors .

. 59

Springboard Publisher II .

109

Symantec

More II.

. 259

Symmetry

Acta Advantage .

T/Maker Company

ClickArt EPS Illustrations

or EPS Business Art

WriteNow v2 0 .

. 119

TimeWorks

Publish-lt .

. 219

Word Perfect Corporation

Word Perfect vl 03 .

229

Working Software

QuickLetter .

. 73

Accounting Packages

Aatrlx Software

Aatrix Checkwriter v2 0 . 35.

Aatrix TimeCard . 69.

Aatrix Payroll v3. 5 . 95.

Aatrix TimeMinder . 149.

Aatrix Payroll Plus . 149.

Blyth Software

Omnis 5 . 347.

Chang Laboratories

MacCalc . 79.

CAT . 225

Claris

FileMaker II . 219.

Mac Project II . 365.

Exodus

Retriever . 59

Fox Software

FoxBASE + Multi- User v2 0 . 389

FoxBASE + v2 0 . 285

FoxBASE + Runtime v2 0 . 169

Generation Four

Multiuser Business Administration
Series (each) . 115.

I com Simulations

Formulator . 89

Informix

Wingzvl.1 . 249

Micro Planning International

Micro Planner 6 1 . 325.

Microsoft

Microsoft File 2 0 . 125

Microsoft Works 2.0 . 185

Microsoft Excel 2.0 . 249

Microsoft Office (includes Excel. Word,

PowerPoint & Mail) . 529.

Micro Trading Software

Stock Watcher . 185

Odesta

Double Helix III . 329

Data Desk Professional . 285

GeoQuery . 198

Palo Alto Software

Business Plan Toolkit . 75.

Now on Compuserve-GO PP
Genie-GOPP

Antic Software

Flexforms Business Template 1 or 2 . 49.

Ashton Tate

FullWrite Professional . 249.

Full Impact . 249

Broderbund

DTP Advisor . 47.

Claris

MacWrite II . 179

Computer Assc.

Cricket Graph vl . 31 . 125.

Data Translation

PhotoMac . 469

Deneba Software

Comment 2.0 . 58.

Design Science

Math Type 2.0 . 95.

Dubl -Click Software

World-Class Lasertype vol. 1 Thru 9 (each) . 42.

Emerald City

Type Align . 62

Exodus

Expresswrite . 65.

Farallon Computing

Screen Recorder . 125.

MacRecorder v2.0 . 159.

I com Simulations

MacKern . 114

Letraset

Design Studio . 619

Ready Set Go! 4.5 . 269

Letra Studio or Image Studio vl .5 . 269

LetraFonts (Various vol 1-45 ea) . 65

Microsoft

Microsoft Word 4 0 . 249

Microsoft PowerPoint 2.1 . 249

New Horizon

WOrk Maker . 65

Niles & Assc.

EndLink . 58

EndNote . 75.

Dyondex, the software and paper system for
personal organization, manages your names, ad¬
dresses, phone numbers and prints concise,
double-sided address-book pages that fit stand¬
ard personal organizers. The first complete, por¬
table address-book system for your personal
computer. The package includes 100 sheets of
Dynodex-paper. binder, and letter divider tabs.
Dynodex by Portfolio Systems ($89.00)

Chang Labs

Rags to Riches 3 -Pack 3 1 ( GUAR/AP) 285

Rags to Riches Inventory Control. 235

Rags to Riches Professional Billing 235

Rags to Riches GL. AR, or AP 118

Check Mark

MultiLedger . 239

EVEN IF IT ISNT HERE...

Payroll 179

Cash Ledger 119

Computer Assc

Simply Accounting . 219.

Dec Software

Dac-Easy Light . 42

Digital Ect.

Business Sense . 269

Dow Jones

Market Manager PLUS 189

Intuit

Quicken vl . 5 . 36

Layered

Insight One Write . 99

At Once! . 285

Insight Expert INV or Time Billing 395

Insight Expen GL. AR. AP or Payroll . 395

MECA

Managing Your Money . 124

Money Magazine (Reality Software)

Wealth Builder . 149.

Monogram

Dollars & Sense 4 1c . 81.

Nolo Press

WillMaker 3 0 . 32.

North Edge Software

Timeslips III . 169.

ProPlus Software

WallStreet Investor v3 0 . 395.

ProPlus Accounting . 619.

Satori Software

Componets GL . 369.

SoftVIew

MacInTax . 65

TaxView Supplements (each) . CALL

Survivor Software

MacMoney 3.0 ( Enhanced Version ) . 59.

Graphics & Design Software

3G Graphics

Images w/lmpact Graphics & Symbols . 51 .

Images w/lmpact Business 1 . 65.

Aegis

Showcase F/X . 189

Altsys Corp.

FONTastic Plus 2.02 . 51.

Art Importer . 89.

Bright Star Technology

Hyper Animator . 99.

Dubl -Click Software

World-Class Fonts vol. 1 & 2 Thru 7 & 8 (each). . 42

WetPaint vol. 1 & 2 Thru 17 & 18 (each) . 42

Electronic Arts

Studio 8 (Macll) . 299

Studio 1 . 97

Emerald City

Smart Art I, II or III . 85

Enabling Technology

Clip 3D Fonts (each) . 57.

Foundation Publishing

Comic People . 21.

Comic Strip Factory . 38

Generic Software

Generic CADD . 84

Generic CADD Libraries (each) . CALL

Good Software

Nu Paint . 79.

Graphsoft

Blueprint . 295.

Mini Cad + . 499.

Innovative Data Design

Residential Construction . 155.

MacDraft 1.2B . Special 169

Dreams . Special 299

I.S.I.

Precision . 155

Klex Software

MacConcept . 999

MacroMind

VideoWorks Hyper Card Driver . 60.

VideoWorks II . 175.

MacroMind Accelerator . 129.

MacroMind Director . 445

MathSoft

MathCAD . 305

Metro ImageBase

Various Fonts (each) . 75 .

Micro: Maps

MacAtlas Paint v2.0 . 45

MacAtlas Professional

{PICT/ MacDraw Version) . 105.

MacAtlas Presentation Pack . 105.

Micro Spot

Maclnteriors . 185.

MacPIot Pen Plotter Professional . 259.

MacPIot Pen Plotter Standard . 133.

Mindscape

Zing . 125.

Personal software toolkit for creating real
Macintosh applications that are customized to
your needs. Allows you to create custom software
easily. Supports most graphic file types: TIFF.
PICT and more. Displays up to 256 colors with a
palette of 16 million colors to choose from. Com¬
patible with HyperCard. Supercard by Silicon
Beach ($128.00)

Math Rabbit . 31.

Meta Comet

Accu-Weather Forecasters . 57

Nordic

Educational Series: (each) . 28

PreSchool Pack . 49

Pelican Software

Monsters & Make Believe . 24

Dinosaur Days . 24

Penton Overseas

VocabuLearn/ce Spanish. French. German or Italian

(Level lor 2) . 30.

VocabuLearn/ce Japanese (Level 1 or 2) 36

Primera Software

Different Drummer . 55

Tactic Software

SoundClips 1 or 2 . 49

Introducing DataLlnk Express, a fully Hayes
compatible 2400 baud modem designed for the
Mac. With comprehensive status light array, "line
engage" indicator and upgradeable design (add
send fax capability and MNP error correction).
Comes complete with a matched Mac-platinum
case, serial port input, a DB-25 connector and
communications software. Datalink by Applied
Engineering ($189.00)

Broderbund

Print Shop .

Poster Maket Plus .

Drawing Tables

Claris

MacPaint II

Smartform Designer

. . . . 285

MacDraw II

295

Claris Cad

595

Computer Assc.

Cricket Draw vl .1 1 .

. 179

Deneba Software

Ultra Paint

. . . . 125.

Canvas 2 1 {Includes Desk Accessory)

195

Para comp

Swivel 3D vl .1 . 299

Model Shop . 369.

Select Micro Systems, Inc

Exstatix . 209

MapMaker v4.0 . 239.

Silicon Beach

Digital Darkroom . 249.

Super Paint 2.0 . 125.

Super 3D 2.0 . 315.

Solutions International

The Curator vl. 05 . 72.

SuperMac Software

Pixel Paint v2.0 . 225.

Pixel Paint Professional . 395.

Tactic Software

Art Clip or ArtFonts 1, 2 or 3 . 49.

Art Clip vol 2 . 69

Zed cor

DeskPaint2.0 . 65.

Educational/Creative Software

Ars Nova

Practica Musica v2.2 . 72.

Bogas Productions

Super Studio Session . 65.

Broderbund

Sensei Geometry, Calculus or Physics . 58.

Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego? . 27

Where in Europe is Carmen SanDiego? . 29

Where in the USA is Carmen SanDiego? . 29

Jam Sessions . 29.

Carina Software

Voyager vl 2 . 85

Coda

Finale . 449

Electronic Arts

Mavis Beacon Typing . 32.

Deluxe Music Construction Set V2.5 . 84

Deluxe Recorder . 95.

Learning Company

Reader Rabbit . 31 .

OUR POLICY

• VISA and MASTERCARD accepted No sur¬
charge. Your credit card is not charged until
we ship

• If we ship a partial order, shipment that
completes is sent free

• All shipments insured; no additional charge

• Upon receipt and approval, personal and
company checks now clear the same day
for immediate shipment.

• No sales tax except orders shipped within
CT, add 8% tax.

• COD maximum $ 1 000. cash or certified
check COD orders ship via UPS Blue Label
unless PUS Ground delivers next day

• 1 20 day limited warranty on all products
Defective software replaced immediately
Defective hardware repaired or replaced at
our discretion. Prices subject to change
without notice All items subject to availability

• For purchase orders, corporate purchases
call our business office at 203-378-1926,
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IT’S AT PROGRAMS PLUS

Circle 44 on reader service card

Trade Secrets for Hard Drive Buyers

If you have to ask how much it costs,
you’re reading the right ad.

There are a lot of hard drives on
the market. Each one claiming to be
"unequivocally the best." And, most
are proud how cheap they are.

All of us want a good deal. And in
the next few minutes you'll learn
how to truly get the best value with¬
out giving up quality and perform¬
ance.

You may be thinking that this is
just more hype from one more com¬
pany. But, read on. You'll be sur¬
prised at what's revealed.

the worldwide leader in one thing.
Kits. We make more Macintosh hard
drive kits than anyone else. There's
a StorMate™ kit for internal installa¬
tions or for external use.

With our kits, you can take virtu¬
ally any SCSI hard drive and in min¬
utes be Macintosh compatible.

You save money because you cut
out the middle-man. You buy the
drive and box. The savings are past
on to you. Install it yourself or let
your dealer do it.

your purchase. In fact, for as long as
you own the StorMate product we
will repair or replace any defective
part at no cost to you!

The Next Step

See your local Apple reseller. Tell
him what drive you want and that
you want the StorMate kit. Have
him give you a price. Then compare
to all the hoopla from those other
companies. You'll be convinced.

Need Help?

Hard Drive Makers

All the hard drive brands sold to¬
day have a couple of things in com¬
mon.

First, virtually all these companies
do not manufacture their own hard
drive. They buy them from the real
drive manufacturers. Companies
like Seagate, Quantum, Rodime,
CDC, Imprimis, Toshiba, Connors,
and many others.

Second, they buy a "box" to put
the drive into. Now, here's the prob¬
lem.

A Short Economics Lesson

Each step of the way, these hard
drive "makers" add a mark-up.
Profit. Now, we'd be the last to say a
company is not entitled to a profit.
But here's how you get shafted.

When these companies buy a hard
drive. They add a little profit. When
they buy boxes. They add a little
profit. When they buy cables. They
add a little profit. The dealer add his
profit. Pretty soon. ..well you get the
picture. Right?

A Better Way

Here's the trade secret that will al¬
low you to get the drive you want
and save money too!

Universal MacProducts, Inc. is

1. Guaranteed
Satisfaction.

When you pur¬
chase any Stor¬
Mate kit, you
have 30 days to
change your
mind. If for any
reason you're
dissatisfied with
your purchase,
just bring it back.

2. Box-to-Macintosh Warranty. For

a full two years, your StorMate kit is
covered by the best warranty in the
business. Should any part become
defective, we will repair or replace
absolutely without charge to you.

3. Optional Lifetime Warranty. As a

registered owner, you can purchase
extended warranty coverage on

dealer. And, of course we guarantee
that it's more than worth the seven
bucks. If you don't agree, we'll give
you double your money back!

StorMate. From now on, you
won't have to take it anymore.

Universal MacProducts, Inc.

23402 South Pointe
Laguna Hills, CA 92653-1512
Telephone (714) 581-3442

For $7.00, we'll send you our
BYOM (Build Your Own Macintosh)
disk. This disk "walks" you through
the hard drive buying business.
Step-by-step. It even prints a quote
that you can take to your local

It’s The Box

Since all hard drives, regardless of
how you buy them, come from the
same source. The only variable is the
"box." Here's
what comes stan¬
dard with our
StorMate kits.

Cables, bracket
or enclosure cabi¬
net, StorWare™
software and
manuals. And
somehting we
call Total Satis¬
faction.

Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple

Computer, Inc.

€1990 Universal MacProducts. Inc StorMate and StorWare
are trademarks ol Universal MacProducts. Inc

NEW PRODUCTS

Edited by

Mary Margaret Lewis

This section covers Macintosh
products formally announced
but not yet evaluated by
Macworld. All prices are
suggested retail. Please call
vendors for information on
availability.

HARDWARE

8-Bit Upgrade Kit

An 8-bit upgrade kit for the
4-bit Apple and Abaton 300/
S scanners. Includes 8-bit
controller board, scanning
software, optional image
processing software and
on-site installation by an
Abaton technician. Basic kit
$695; kit with software
$795. Abaton, 4 15/683-2226.

AccupowerUPS

Uninterruptible power sys¬
tem for the Mac SE. If sys¬
tem crashes suddenly, the
product automatically takes
a picture of the file being
used, and saves all informa¬
tion such as default values,
registers, and calculations to
disk and automatically re¬
stores the data when the
system returns. Keeps com¬
puter running for up to ten
minutes during a power loss.
$348. Emerson Computer
Power, 714/545-5581.

AutoBack and AutoBack
Server

Automatic disk backup util¬
ity maintains an up-to-date
shadow of user and file-ser¬

ver disks with no required
user intervention or ma¬
chine downtime. Backs up
to any specified folder or
disk, local or remote. Works
with any Mac-compatible
network system. AutoBack
$99, AutoBack Server $250.
Soft Trends, 714/650-2158.

ChromaScript

Raster image processor that
lets you create PostScript
color slides for use in pre¬
press applications, graphic
design, and business presen¬
tations. Can communicate
via AppleTalk and can inter¬
face with workstations
through the unit’s RS-232C
and Centronics parallel
ports. $17,900. Agfa Matrix,
914/359-3201.

ChromaScript

ColorCard/24

24-bit color display board for
the Mac II series. Has 8-bit
color capacity built into the
logic board and the 25MHz
processor. $999. SuperMac
Technology, 408/245-2202.

■■■■■■

ColorCard 24

The Cordless Mouse

Cordless mouse input de¬
vice that uses infrared signal
transmission technology.
Can operate the Mac up to
five feet away from its base
receiver. $149.95. Practical
Solutions, 602/322-6100.

DayStar Fast Cache llci

Add-in cache board for the
Mac llci that improves pro¬
cessing speed 40 percent
over the standard llci. Plugs
into the Ilci’s Cache Con¬
nector. $995. Daystar Digi¬
tal, 404/967-2077.

Drive Exerciser for Mac 400K
& 800K Drives

Hardware and software
combination that enables a
technician to align 400K
and 800K 3 ‘/2-inch Mac
floppy drives. Lets user con¬
trol stepping the heads to
see azimuth, radial, and track
0 using a 3 ‘/2-inch Dysan Ana¬
log Alignment disk. $269.
American Educational Ser¬
vices, 703/256-5315.

The FlexScan 9060S

A 14-inch multiscanning
color monitor that supports
the entire range of mono-

The FlexScan 9060S

chrome and color-display
standards for IBM PC com¬
patibles and Macintosh II
systems. Automatically ad¬
justs for horizontal scan fre¬
quencies from 15. 5kHz to
38.5kHz and vertical fre¬
quencies from 50Hz to
90Hz. $1059. Nanao USA,
213/325-5202.

MacDiscus

A 5 ‘A-inch rewritable opti¬
cal disk subsystem that lets
users store, retrieve, mod¬
ify, or delete data on
650MB rewritable optical
disks. Enables users to run
popular Mac applications
directly on rewritable disks.
Can be connected to a stand¬
alone workstation or to a
network file server. $6495.
Advanced Graphics Applica¬
tions, 212/337-4200.

MacRescue

A piggybacked expansion
board that snaps onto the
enhanced ROM board to
upgrade Macintosh 128K
or 512K machines to
lMB-4MBofRAM. Includes
SCSI port. $317. Compu¬
ter Care, 612/371-0061,
800/950-2273.

Mobius Mouse

Cordless mouse that uses
infrared technology to move
the cursor in either Fine
Tune or Speed Up modes.
Mouse automatically goes
into sleep mode after a user-
designated period of inac¬
tivity to conserve power.
$149. Mobius Technolo¬
gies, 415/654-0556.

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The FlexScan 9060S

MACWORLD ‘MARCH 1990

223

Percon Series 10

Series 10 bar-code interface
device for the Mac that
“teaches” itself to read
multiple bar codes. Pro¬
grammed bar-code type
remains in memory wheth¬
er the unit is off or on. Data
cables are available to con¬
nect the Series 10 to the
Apple Desktop Bus. $595.
Percon, 503/344- 1189.

RasterOps Calibrator
Display System

Self-calibrating color display
system. System includes a
19-inch color display moni¬
tor, an 8-bit or 24-bit display
board, an optical sensing de¬
vice, software, and cables.
Complete system $13,645;
without board $8650. Ras¬
terOps, 408/562-4200.

TravelPac

Portable storage system for
data on a hard disk that’s
compatible with all Mac
models. Available in 40MB
and 80MB capacities, the
drives measure 2 by 4‘/2 by
T/a inches. TravelPac 40
$1195; TravelPac 80 $1895.
Tallgrass Technologies,
913/492-6002.

Viking Trinitron

A 19-inch color-display sys¬
tem for the Mac II that in¬
cludes the Moniterm 8-bit
color controller board. Dis¬
plays 1024 by 826 pixels. Has
a 69Hz refresh rate. $5995-
Moniterm, 612/935-4151.

Wiz

Mouselike input device
contains three buttons with

Wiz

NEW PRODUCTS

six settings, four of which
are user-definable. Crosshair
window facilitates applica¬
tions requiring precision.
Color-coded templates avail¬
able for 34 major DTP, graph¬
ics and office-automation
programs. $249. CalComp,
714/82 1-2000, 800/225-2667.

SOFTWARE

Adobe PhotoShop

Image-manipulation pro¬
gram for graphic artists that
has full set of image-editing,
color-correction, and re¬
touching capabilities. Auto¬
matic Trap function lets
users print separations di¬
rectly from PhotoShop or
save images as Encapsulat¬
ed PostScript documents.
1MB min. memory. $895.
Adobe, 415/961-4400.

Percon Series 10

Includes tips and guidelines
for better writing. Also has
rules for difficult, confusing
spellings; draws distinctions
between words like affect
and effect; and assists with
spelling foreign words com¬
monly used in English. 1MB
min. memory. $49.95. Nova
Development, 818/992-3222.

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Block Out

3-D brain-teaser in which
players try to maneuver and
rotate falling blocks into
position so they will create
complete layers as they fall
into a pit. As layers form,
they vanish, giving the play¬
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room to work. 512K min.
memory. $39.95. California
Dreams, 408/435-1445.

Block Out

Alchemy II

Molecular modeling soft¬
ware for working with 3-D
molecular structures. Pro¬
vides chemically correct
tools for building and ma¬
nipulating molecular struc¬
tures using menus and the
mouse. Runs in color. 2MB
min. memory. $950 for busi¬
nesses ; $650 percopy for aca-
demic institutions; volume
discounts available. Tripos
Associates, 314/647-1099.

American English
Writing Guide

Writer’s reference guide
for style and punctuation.

ClickWriters

HyperCard writing stack
that includes a digest of
English grammar, style, and
punctuation; a tutorial
stack; and a database to
store letters. Program
comes with models for a
variety of standard types
of letters (for instance let¬
ters of recommendation
or complaint) that can be
customized. 1MB min. mem¬
ory'. $24.95. StackWorks,
217/328-5257.

Compare-A-Loan

Program that enables you
to compare several aspects

of up to five different types
of loans on a single report.
Evaluations include ele¬
ments such as fixed or ad¬
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graduated payments, extra
payments, skipped pay¬
ments, constant principal re¬
duction, odd-day interest,
and balloon payments. 512K
min. memory. $59.95. Soft-
flair, 414/797-4491.

Enhance

Scientific and medical im¬
age-manipulation software.
Supports as many as three
iterations of the same im¬
age on screen at the same
time, with synchronized
cut and paste operations
possible between them. In
addition, program offers
split screens, gray-scale
histograms, line profiles,
image overlays, and touch-
up tools. 2MB min. mem¬
ory. $500. MicroFrontier,
515/270-8109.

EZ Vision

MIDI sequencing software
for recording, editing, and
playing back music with
MIDI synthesizers and the
Mac. Has Mixer window
with faders for setting vol¬
ume and stereo balance,
.Arrangement window for
chaining sections of songs
together, MIDI file com¬
patibility, and MIDI clock
synchronization. Designed
for multimedia users and
MIDI novices. 1MB min.
memory. $149.95. Opcode
Systems, 415/32 1-8977.

FountainView

Clip an collection of foun¬
tains created as a series of
halftone dots. Each fountain
is composed of eight half¬
tone shapes in various dot
sizes. Collection is com¬
posed of 64 files in EPS for¬
mat. 1MB min. memory'. $40.
ISIS Imaging Corporation,
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224

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re you one of those
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Grammatik Mac

Expert-system grammar
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Proofreads files created by
word processing programs;
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offers advice and gives you
the opportunity to correct
the mistake. Compatible
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Grand Prix Circuit

Mac version of the first-per¬
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of racing on the eight race¬
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Great Gantt

Program for creating Gantt
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HandOff

Utility that lets users open
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MacConcept

CAD software that lets users
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Interactive lottery7 wagering
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MacTunes

Music program that lets the
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songs on the Mac. The user
may enter a song from a
piece of sheet music with¬
out knowing how to read
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Game that places the player
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memory. $49.95. Sierra On-
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MasterForms

Collection of more than 90
common business forms
to be used with Adobe Sys¬
tems’ TrueForm form pro¬
cessing program. Questions
on forms are set in Times
typeface, and answers are
filled out in Courier for print¬
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memory. $79.JIAComputer
Services, 215/855-5159.

Message Center

HyperCard stack for tele¬
phone message tracking.
Includes an Archive Stack
where all messages can be
stored for later retrieval.
Stacks, files, or applications
can be linked in the pro¬
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Metamorphosis

Software that converts Post¬
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2MB min. memory. $295.
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ModelShop

Three-dimensional architec¬
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Detective game in which
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Mystery Fossil

HyperCard-based home¬
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Introduces a mystery fossil
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Students consult a database
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memory. Single copy $29.95;
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ParaFont

Utility that enables desktop
publishers to transform ex-
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Anti Virus Kit . CALL

Complete Undelete . 36

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Sector Collector . 36.

3G Graphics
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Business 1 . .64

Graphics & Symbols 1 . 49

Sticky Business . $79.

Williams & Macias

Label making utility. Prefor¬
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Aatrix

CheckWriter II . 32.

Payroll 3.5 . 94.

Payroll Plus . 145.

TimeCard . 99.

TimeMinder2.1 . 145.

Abbott Systems

CanOpener 1.0 . 64.

ACIUS

4th Dimension 2.0 . 465.

Addison Wesley
Prog. Online Companion . 32.

Adobe

ATM Plus Pack . 109.

Illustrator 88 . 278.

Streamline . 228.

True Form . 220.

Type Manager . 56.

Adobe Postscript Fonts

1 Palatino . 123.

2 ITC Bookman . 123.

3 ITC Zapf Dingbats & ITC Zapf

Chancery Med. Ital . 92.

4 ITC Avant Garde Goth . 123.

5 New Cen. Schoolbook .... 123.

6 Optima . 123.

7 ITC Souvenir . 123.

8 ITC Lubalin Graph . 123.

9 ITC Garamond . 123.

10 ITC American Typewriter &

ITC Machine . 93.

11 ITC Benguiat & Friz

Quadrata . 123.

12 Glypha . 123.

13 Helv Light & Black . 123.

14 Helvetica Condensed . ..243

15 Trump Medieval . 123.

16 Melior . 123.

17 ITC Galliard . 123.

18 ITC New Baskerville . 123.

19 ITC Korinna . 123.

20 Goudy Old Style . 123.

21 Sonata . 61.

22 Century Old Style . 93.

23 ITC Franklin Gothic . 180

24 ITC Cheltenham . 123.

25 Park Avenue . 61 .

26 Bodom . 123.

27 Letter Gothic . 123.

28 Prestige Elite . 123.

29 Orator . 93

30 News Gothic . 123.

31 ITC Tiffany . 180

32 Cooper Black . 93.

33 Stencil, Hobo &

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34 Aachen, Revue, Univ Roman

& Freestyle Scr . . 123.

35 Carta . 61

36 Lucida . 123

37 Univers . 243.

38 Univers Condensed . 180

39 Futura Light . 180

40 Stone Serif . 180

41 Stone Sans Serif . 180

42 Stone Informal . 180

43 Corona . 93.

44 Eurostile . 180

45 Excelsior . 93.

46 Futura . 180.

47 Futura Condensed . 243.

48 Lucida Sans . 123.

49 Memphis . 243.

50 Helvetica Compressed .93.

51 Italia . 93.

52 Belwe . 123.

53 Caslon 3 & 540 . 123.

54 Goudy Extra Bold &

Heavyface . 93.

55 Janson Text . 123.

56 ITC Eras . 180

57 ITC Kabel . 123.

58 0CR-A, OCR-B. MICR . 93.

59 Helvetica 1 . 123.

60 Helvetica 2 . 180.

61 Helvetica 3 . 180.

62 Times Ten . 123.

63 Kaufman . 93.

64 Clarendon . 93.

* 65 Peignot . 93.

66 New Caledonia . 243.

67 ITC Clearface . 243.

68 Americana . 123.

69 ITC Serif Gothic . 180.

70 Century Expanded . 93.

71 Serifa . 180

72 Caslon Open Face . 61 .

73 Frutiger . 243.

74 Linotype Centennial . 243.

75 Stempel Garamond . 123.

76 Weiss . 123.

77 Garamond 3 . 123.

78 Univ News, Commercial Pi

Univ Greek & Math Pi . 93.

79 Avenir 1 . 180.

80 Avenir 2 . 180.

87 ITC Bauhaus . 123.

82 Antique Olive . 123.

81 Walbaum . 123.

83 Life . 93.

84 Concorde . 123.

85 Gothic 13 & Tempo . 93.

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86 Cochin . 123.

88 Sabon . 123.

89 Hiroshige . 243

90 A. Bocklin F. Fraktur, Present

Scr & Helv 1 . 123.

91 Dorn Casual . 93

92 Post Antiqua . 93.

93 Folio . 123.

94 Linoscript & Linotext . 93.

95 Vag Rounded . 123.

96 Akzidenz Grotesk . 123

97 Impressum . 93.

98 Bauer Bodoni . 123.

99 New Aster . 243

100 Adobe Garamond . 180

101 Adobe Garamond Expert

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102 Candida . 93

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104 Utopia . 180

105 Utopia Expert Coll . 123.

106 ITC Berk. Oldstyle . 243

107 Antique Olive II . 123

108 Parisan/Umbra . 93

109 Mistral/Reporter . 93.

110 Nuptial/Cascade/Medici
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111 Bauer Bodoni II . 123.

112 Meridien . 180.

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114 ITC Novarese . 180

115 Kunstter Script . 93.

116 Industria . CALL

117 ITC Sourvenier II . 123.

118 Bodoni II . 123.

119 Russell Square . 93.

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121 Lithos . 123.

122 Cottonwood/Ponderosa

Ironwood/Mesquite/Juniper
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Tempo II . 74

Aladdin Systems

Shortcut . 46

Aldus

Freehand 2.02 . 339.

PageMaker 3.02 . 384.

PM Color Extension . 149

Persuasion . 335.

ALSoft

DiskExpress II . 55

Master Juggler . 49.

MultiDisk . 41

Altsys

FONTastic Plus . 51.

Fontographer 3 0 . 249.

Antic Software

Bus Forms for PageMaker

Vol. 1 Human Resources 27

Vol. 2 Operations/Admin . 27.

Vol. 3 Inventory/Stock . 27

FlexForm Business Templates
Volume I or II . 47.

Ashlar

Vellum . 690

AshtonTate

dBASE Mac 294

Full Impact . 248

FullWrite Professional . 255.

A Lasting Impression

ResumExpert . 38

Berkeley System Design

After Dark . 22

Stepping Out . 49

Blyth Software

Omnis 5 Incrementer . 74

Omnis 5 Single User . 345.

Bootware Software

ResumeWriter Pro . 54

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StdeKick 2 0 . 67

Turbo Pasca< i.i . 67.

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Bright Star Technology

Hyper Animator 1 .5 . 98

Interface 229.

Braderbund

PosterMaker Plus . 34

Print Shop . 35.

TypeStyier . 129.

Virex . $52.

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Caere

OmniPage 2.0 . 542.

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AME 1-10 Users . 978.

AME 1-5 Users . 584.

AME Single User . 179.

QuickDEX . 31.

CE Software

CalendarMaker 3.0 . 31.

DiskTop 4.0 (w/GOfer) . 64.

In/Out (1-10 User) . 188

In/Out (1-5 User) . 128.

MockPackage . 31.

QuicKeys 1 .2 . 64.

QuickMail 3.0 (1-5) . 169.

QuickMail 2.0 (1-10) . 245.

Central Point Software

Copy II Mac 7.2 . 20.

PC fools Deluxe . 46.

Chang Labs

CAT . 228.

Check Mark Software

Cash Ledger . 115.

Multiledger 1.3 . 235.

Payroll . 175.

Claris

Claris Cad . 594.

FileMaker II . 219.

MacDraw II . 294.

MacPaint 2.0 . 94.

MacProject II 2.0 . 370.

MacWnte II . 179.

MacWrite ll/FileMaker II ... 298
MacWnte H/MacDraw II ... 368.

SmartForm Designer . 295.

Computer Associates

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Connectix - Virtual

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ScheduleMaker . 299

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Cricket Draw . 167.

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Cricket f?mt . 65.

Cricket Wisents 2.0 . 285

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Canvas 2.1 . 165

Coach Professional . 114

Comment 2.0 . 54

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Digitatk

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Calculator Const. Set . 45

WetPaint, two volume sets

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9 & 10 "Printer’s Helper" . 39

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Vol 5 & 6 (Giants) . 39.

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Smart Art 1,2, or 3 . ea. 84.

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Farallon

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Timbuktu Remote . 125.

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Fast Back II . 105.

PowerStation 2.5 . 34.

Pyro! 3.3 . 14.

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Comic People (Vol. 1) . 21.

Fox Software

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101 S & B - HyperCard . 36.

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Symmetry

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Mail Workstation 2.0

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Alphabits . 68

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Nisus . 225

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ProCite . 198

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Turbo Back . 49

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Turbo Optimizer . 25.

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. 52.

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199

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169

XPress

455.

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Image Grabber 2.0 .

. 31.

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Bulk Mailer .

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Digital Darkroom

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Super 3D (Color) .

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Super Card .

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Super Paint .

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Microphone 1.5 . 109.

Microphone II . 215.

Solutions

backFax . 124

Curator . 72.

SmartScrap & Clipper . 45.

Super Glue II . 61.

Somak

Script Edit . 49.

Lightning Scan . $368.

Thunderware

Very affordable high resolu¬
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SuperMac Software

Disk Fit 1.5 . 58.

Network Disk Fit . 225.

PixelPaint 2.0 . 224.

PixelPaint Pro . 389.

Sentinel 2.0 . 88.

SuperSpool . 58.

SuperLaserSpool

Multi User (1 to 5) . 289.

Single User . 85.

Survivor Software

Invoice It . 49.

MacMoney . 59.

Symantec

Just Enough Pascal . 49.

Lightspeed Pascal 2.0 . 92.

More II . 249.

S.A.M . : . 65.

S U M. II . 94.

Think C 4.0 . 165.

Symmetry

Acta Advantage . 64.

HyperDA 1.2 . 46.

Key Plan . 245.

Picture Base & Retriever . 54.

Synergy Software

KaleidaGraph 2.0 . 145.

Versa Term 4.0 . 88.

Versa Term Pro 3.0 . 174.

Synex

MacEnvelope Plus . 179.

T/Maker

WriteNow 2.0 . 108.

Tactic Software

ArtClip 1st Ed . 49.

ArtClip 2nd Ed . 65.

ArtFonts 1/2/3 . 48

ArtFonts Pak . 129.

FontShare . 129.

Icon-lt . 42.

Sound Clips 1 or 2 . ea 48

TGS Systems

ProGraph . 126

Times lips Corporation

Timeslips III . 168.

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Timeworks

HyperWorks Organizer 57

Publish It! . 225

TML Systems

TML Pascal II 3 0 . 56.

w/MPW 3.0 . 108

Source Code Library . 39

TOPS

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Totem Graphics

EPS Color Clip Art by Subject:
Birds, Domestic Animals, Fish,
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Wild Animals, Women ... ea. 98
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Volume 1 - 12 . ea. 74.

Traveling Software

Lap-Link Mac III . CALL

Trendware

XCAL . 77.

True Basic

True Basic 2.02 . 55.

Graphics Toolkits - 3-D, Business
or Scientific . ea 43.

U S. Micro Labs
FontSizer . 69

VersaCAD

VersaCAD Drafter . 419.

Visionary Software

Synchronies . 38.

WordPerfect Corp.

WordPerfect 1.02 . 179.

Working Software

QuickLetter . 73.

Xerox (Datacopy)

AccuText . 545.

Zedcor Inc

DeskPaint/DeskDraw . 64.

ZBasic 5.0 . 89

Mac 286 . $1,099.

Orange Micro

MS-DOS Coprocessor. AT
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Scanners

Abaton Scanners

300/GS (8 Bit) . 1,495.

300/S (4 Bit) . 1,198.

Logitech

Scan Man . 320.

RasterOps

TrueCapture324 . 1,995

...w/ColorBoard264 . 2,395.

w/Comp. Video Option ... 2.398

Sharp Color Scanners

JX 300 . 3.995

JX 450 . 5.995.

Thunderware

Lightning Scan . 368

ThunderScan 5.0 . 179.

Xerox - Datacopy Scanner

Datacopy 730GS . 798.

Modems

Everex

EMAC Md2400 MNP 5 198

Hayes

Smartmodem 2400 38

Smartmodem 9600 79

MacTech - SmartLInk Modem

2400m (MNP 5) . 24

2400s . 13

Shiva Corporation
NetModem V2400 43

Bulk Mailer . $77.

Satorl Software

Powerful mail list manage¬
ment program. Features in¬
clude duplication elimination,
Zip code & alphabetical sorts,
Zip +4, etc.

Supra Corp.

Supra Modem 2400 . Ill

Telebit

T-1000 (9600 BPS) 69

T-2000 (19,000 BPS) .... 1,25
T-2500V 32 (19.000) . 1,25

U.S. Robotics

2400 Baud . 321

9600 HST Baud . 68.

Monitors & Cards

Micron Color Cards

for SE/30, II, llx, Ilex, & llci

Xceed (8 Bit -13') . 381

Xceed (8 Bit -1 9-) . 59)

NEC Color Monitors

NEC MacSync 14" . 49)

NEC Multisync XI 20“ . 2,69!

RasterOps

ClearVue/SE 19“ Monitor w/

16MHz Board . 1.59!

Trinitron 19“ Monitor . 3,39)

ColorBoards

108+ (II, llx, Ilex, llci) . 89!

108+ (SE/30) . 1.04!

224 (32 Bit - 19") . 3,15

264 (II series -13“) . 78!

264 (SE/30 - 13“) . 1.03)

Sony - Color Multiscan

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16" HG Color . 2.49)

19" HG Color . 3,19)

Accelerators & Upgrades

Dove

MacSnap Upgrades

524 (512k to 1 Mb) . 19!

524e (51 2kE to 1 Mb) 17!

524s (524e w/SCSI) . 23!

548 (512k to 2 Mb) 42)

548e (51 2kE to 2 Mb) 41!

548s (548e w/SCSI) . 47!

SCSI Port Adapter . 10!

Marathon 020 SE Accelerators
MSE1 (Board Only) 41!

MSE2 ( w/1 Mb) . 69!

MSE3 (. w/68881) . 58!

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Marathon 030 Accelerators
32MHz - Mac II, Mac llx, or SE
30 . ea 96!

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Motorola

Math Co-Processors
68882 -16MHz 28!

68882 - 25MHz 39!

68882 - 33MHz 69!

68882 - 40MHz 74)

National Semiconductor
Maccelerate A/Ux 46!

Traveling Software

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Lap Link Mac III Connectivity Pac ... $81.

MacEnvelope

QuickMai! 2.2

Insight Development

Complete mail prepara¬
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Envelopes can be printed
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CE Software

This fast, full featured E-
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package enhances pro¬
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Brederbund

The powerful special ef¬
fects program for creat¬
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Lets you do things with
display type that you 've
never been able to do
with desktop publishing
before. Anyone with a
Mac and TypeStyler can
turn ordinary display type
into extraordinary works
of art.

TypeStyler

$129.

Emerald City Software

Text & graphic effects
you customize, preview
in exact on-screen view,
and paste the result into
your favorite application.
Access effects from
within any application,
make changes with
simple controls, modify
effects to fit your needs
Requires PostScript
printer.

ea. $84.

Orchid Technology

Mac Sprint II 249

Total Systems

Gemini 020030 Accelerators
68020 SE - 16MHz 697

68020 SE - 25MHz . 1.118

68030 SE - 16MHz . 976.

68030 SE- 20MHz . 1,118

68030 SE - 25MHz . 1.285

GemKrt (allows user to put Gem¬
ini 020/030 Accelerators in Mac
Plus. 51 2kE. 512k, & 128k Kit
includes internal fan, SCSI port,
and space for extra RAM mem¬
ory) . 149

Grappler LX . $129.

Orange Micro

Laser/24-Pin printer solution.

Enhanced laser, dot matrix
and inkjet printer support.
Exclusive 57.6k baud serial/
parallel link.

Hard Disks

Everex - EMAC Drives

60/60dtl Deluxe .

1,495.

60t (Tape Backup) .

...658

Impact Tape (150 Mb) ..

985

Impact 40 Plus .

...735.

Impact 80 .

1,095.

PLI (Peripheral Land, Inc.)

Infinity 40 Turbo .

1,098

Infinity 40/40 Turbo .

1,798

Infinity Optical Disk Drive

600 Mb

3,998

TurboFloppy 1.4 .

.345.

Networking Hardware

Cayman Systems

Gator Box .

2,159.

Gator Mail Gateway .

.698.

Gator Mail to Unix .

...698.

Gator Share Software ....

1,398.

Gator Card (Mac SE, II, llx, Ilex,

llci, orSE/30) . ea. 460.

David Systems

Twisted Pair Ethernet

Easy to install. Please call for

information and current prices.

Dove

FastNet Equipment

Fastnet AE .

1.249

FastNet SE or SE/30 .

365.

FastNet III .

...365.

II Intelligent Controller....

545.

FI-1 Ethernet LAN/68020

Accelerator SE .

...895.

SCSI CheaperNet .

.748.

SCS.I Thickwire Ethernet

849

Farallon PhoneNet

DB-9 29

DIN-8 32

DIN-8 (10 Pack) 198

Star Connector 19

Star Connector (10 Pack) 198
Star Controller 825

Star Controller EN CALL

Repeater . 315

Kinetics

EtherPort . 469

EtherPort Lattis Net 498

Fast Path . 1.945

MacTech

ZoneNet-DB-9 or DIN-8 . 17.

Nuvotech

NuvoLmk SC . 345

Turbo Bridge . 318

Turbo Net - DB-9 . 22

Turbo Net - DIN-8 . 21.

Turbo Net ST -DB-9 30

Turbo Net ST - DIN-8 30

Shiva Corporation

EtherGate . 1 ,831 .

InterBridge . 648

NetBridge . 339

NetSerial . 279

TeleBridge . 338.

TOPS

Flash Card (TOPS Dos) . 158

TOPS FlashBox . 109

TOPS Repeater . 115.

Miscellaneous

Aapps Corporation

Micro TV . 269

Voyager . $88.

Carina Software

Interactive desktop planetar¬
ium. A dynamic celestial da¬
tabase that lets you command
an unparalelled view of the
skies from your Mac.

Abaton

InterFax 12/48 . 259.

InterFax 24/96 . 418.

Quickstep Page Printer ...3,295.
American Power Conversion

UPS 110SE . 268

Dayna Communications

Dayna Talk Connector . 99.

DaynaFile - Single Drive

DfOlOO (360k) . 498

Df0200 (1.2Mb) . 605.

Df0300 (720k) . 605.

Df0400 (1.44Mb) . 685.

DaynaFile - Dual Drive

DfOl 02 (360k/1 2Mb) . 729.

HyperTMON . $ 58

ICOM Simulations

The first debugger for Hyper-

Card's programming lan¬
guage, HyperTalk is a must
for both beginning $ ad¬
vanced users alike

D10103 (360k/720k) ...

729

DfOl 04 (360k/1 44Mb)..

. 755

Df0204(1.2Mb/1 44Mb)

898

Kurt a - Is/ADB Tablets

Cordless 4 Button Cursor

8.5' x 11" (w/Stylus) .

.252

1 2* x 12' (w/Stylus) .

384

1 2* x 1 7‘ (w/Stylus) .

624

NEC CD ROM Drive

Battery Pack .

Intersect Cdr-35 .

495

Orange Micro

Grappler C/Mac/GS .

. 78

Grappler LQ, LS . ea 102

Grappler Mac LX .

129

Mac 286 NuBus Card

1.099

Mac 86 NuBus Card .

498

Orchid Technology

Orchid Fax Modem .

446

PCPC (8mm Tape Backup)

Jetstream .

4.725

Qume

Crystal Print Publisher ...

2,950

Summagraphics Bit Pad Plus

12' x 12" Tablet -ADB

315

ENTERTAINMENT

Access Software

World Class Leader Board . 25

Accolade

4th & Inches, FastBreak. Grand

Prix Circuit .

ea 27.

Hardball or Mean 18 .

ea. 26

Activision

Cosmic Osmo .

. 41

Manhole .

Manhole CD Version .

. 35.

Addison Wesley

The Hobbit .

. 26

Fellowship of The Ring

. 26

Shadows of Mordor .

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Crack of Doom .

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A different world to con-
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Ferrari Grand Prix . 32.

P-51 Mustang Flight Sim . 31.

Casady A Greene

Crystal Quest 2.2 . 25.

...w/Critter Editor . 40.

Centron

Casino Master B & W . 44

Casino Master Dlx Color . 49.

Casino Master . $44.

Casino Master Color . . $49.
Centron Software

Baccarat. Blackjack, Craps,
Poker and Roulette. Greatfor
learning the ins & outs of
successful wagering.

Data East

Super HangOn! . 26.

Discovery Software

Arkanoid . 26.

Electronic Arts

Bard’s Tale . 31.

Chessmaster2100 . 32.

Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight

Trainer . 31.

Might & Magic II . 38.

Panzer Battles . 28.

Patton Vs Rommel . 14.

Infocom

Arthur: Quest for Excalibur .... 25.
Quarterstaff . 28.

Inline Design

Bomber (w/Head Phones) ...25.

Lucasfilm

Pipe Dream . 28.

Mediagenic

Shanghai . 19.

Micro League Sports

Micro League Baseball II ..... 35.

MicroProse

Pirates! . 32.

Microsoft

Flight Simulator 1.02 . 32.

Miles Computing

Fool’s Errand . 31.

Harrier Strike Mission II . 31.

Puzzle Gallery . 26.

Mindscape

Aussie Joker Poker . 19.

Balance Of Power 1990 . 29.

Colony . 29

Crossword Magic . 29.

Deja Vu . 29.

DejaVull . 29.

Gauntlet . 29.

Shadowgate . 29.

Trust & Betrayal . 29.

Uninvited . 29.

Origin Systems

Autoduel, Moebius . ea. 23.

Ogre . 16.

Space Rogue . 30

Postcraft International

Citadel . 36.

Premier Technology

NetTrek . 34

Strategic Conquest 2.0 . 34.

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Shodan

Leprechaun . 29

Silicon Beach Software

Apache Strike . 19

Beyond Dark Castle . 19.

Dark Castle . 22.

Sir Tech

Wizardry . 35

Software Toolworks

Cribbage King/Gin King . 38

Hunt For Red October . 31 .

Life And Death . 31 .

Sphere

Falcon 2.0 . 30.

Gato 1.4. Pt- 109 . ea 26.

Solitaire Royale . 19.

Tetris (Black & White) . 19.

Tetris (Color) . 22.

Welltris . CALL

Strategic Simulations, Inc.

AD&D: Pool of Radiance . 32.

Strategic Studies Group

Halls of Montezuma . 30.

Three Sixty

Sands of Fire . 34.

Warlock . 28.

Toyogo. Inc.

Nemesis Go Master . 47.

Nemesis Joseki Tutor . 28.

XOR Corporation

Lunar Rescue . 33.

Mac Racquetball . 36.

MacGolf . 32.

MacCourses . 19.

MacGolf Classic . 52.

* NFL Challenge . 55.

Pro Challenge . 28.

Road Racer . 38.

TaskMaker . 27.

EDUCATION

Borland International

Eureka: The Solver . 138.

Bright Star Technology

Alphabet Blocks . 29.

Talking Tiles . 25.

Brederbund

Sensei Calculus . 58.

Sensei Geometry . 58.

Sensei Physics . 58.

Type! . 18.

Swivel 3D . $294.

Paracomp

Fastest color 3-D drawing/
modeling program for Mac.
Intuitive interface for moving
& rendering 3D objects with
many special effects.

Carina

Voyager 1.2 . 88

Davidson A Associates

Math Blaster . 26.

First Byte

Dinosaur Discovery Kit . 26

Great Wave Software

KidsMath . 26

KidsTime . 25

Number Maze . 26.

Learning Company

Math Rabbit . 31 .

Reader Rabbit 21 . 31.

Nordic

MacKids Preschool pack 36.
Word Quest . 31.

Alphabetizer. Bodyworks, Clock¬
works. ComWorks. Earthworks,
FlashWorks. Lemonade Stand,

Naval Battle, Preschool Disk 1.
Preschool Disk 2. Turbo Math
Facts, Word Search
. ea. 27

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HyperCard driven audio lan¬
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Spanish.

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French Level 1 or 2 . ea. 29.

German Level 1 or 2 . ea. 29.

Italian Level 1 or 2 . ea. 29

Japanese Level 1 or 2 .... ea. 35

Spanish Level 1 or 2 . ea 29

Personal Training Systems
Illustrator 88

A1 Beginning . 36.

A2 Intermediate . 36.

A3 Creating Special FX . 36

A4 Prec. Drawing Tech . 36.

The Basics

B1 Plus or SE w/Out Hd . 36

B2 Plus or SEw/Hd . 36.

B3 020 & 030 w/Hd . 36

B4 Beyond The Basics . 36.

Freehand

Fhl Beginning Level . 36

Fh2 Intermediate Leve . 36.

Fh3 Creating Special FX . 36

Fh4 Prec. Drawing Tech . 36

FileMaker

Fml Beginning . 36.

Fm2 Intermediate . 36.

Fm3 Advanced . 36

Fm4 Tips & Techniques . 36.

HyperCard

HI Using HyperCard . 36.

H2 Creating Cards & Stack .. J6

H3 Basic Scripting . 36.

H4 Advanced Scripting . 36

Persuasion

Lpl Beginning . 36.

Lp2 Intermediate . 36.

Lp3 Autotemplates . 36

Lp4 Creating Artwork . 36

Works

Ml Database & Letters . 36.

M2 Advanced Database . 36

M3 Spreadsheets . 36.

M4 Word Processing . 36.

PageMaker

PI Beginning . 36

P2 Intermediate . 36

P3 Tips & Techniques . 36

P4 Advanced Features . 36.

Word

W1 Beginning Level . 36

W2 Intermediate Level . 36

W3 Advanced Level . 36.

W4 Additional Features . 36.

Excel 2.2

XII Beg Spreadsheets . 36

XI2 Int Spreadsheets . 36

XI3 Adv. Spreadsheets 36.

XI4 Creating Bus Graphs 36

XI5 Building Databases . 36

XI6 Beginning Macros . 36

XI7 Advanced Macros 36

XI8 Macros For Excel 2.2 36

XI9 What s New For 2.2 . 36

Simon A Schuster

Typing Tutor IV . 29

Software Toolworks
M Beacon Teaches Typing . 32
Spinnaker

Typing Made Easy . 25

True Basic

Algebra . 33

UltraPaint

Deneba Software

Tough new graphics
standard for the nineties
Black & white painting,
color painting, grayscale
editing. ob/ect
drawing . this does it all.
UltraPaint is ultra com-
patable too. w/built-in
import/export filters for
TIFF . MacPaint. PICT 1/
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MacDraw I formats

$124.

Insight Development

Print any Mac applica¬
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printers. Chooser level
program, completely
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Select the printer only
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Supports HP LaserJet II
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$94.

Panorama

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charts faster than the
blink of an eye.

. $199.

Aapps Corporation

MicroTV ,M is the first
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True Basic Combo Packs
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Algebra . 39

Calculus . 39

Pre-Calculus . 39

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Ars Nova

Practica Musica 2.2 . 69.

Bogas Productions

Super Studio Session . 65

Studio Session . 44

Brass, Country, Heavy Metal,
Sound Effects, String Quartet ...
. ea 13.

Broderbund

Jam Session . 28.

Coda

Finale 2.0 . 558.

Mac Drums . 31.

MusicProse . 186.

Perceive . 49.

Liaison . $175.

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Extends the reach of Ap¬
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access.

Electronic Arts

Deluxe Music Const. Set . 82.

Deluxe Recorder . 98.

Farallon

MacRecorder 2.0 . 162.

Great Wave Software

ConcertWare Plus MIDI . 78.

Mark Of The Unicorn

Professional Composer . 389.

Professional Performer . 395.

Passport Designs

Click Tracks . 309.

MasterTracks Jr . 89.

MasterTracks Pro 4.0 . 355.

MIDI Interface . 79.

MIDI Transport . 309.

Note Writer II . 320.

Primera Software

Different Drummer . 55.

Resonate

Listen 2.1 . 61.

ACCESSORIES

Abaton

Pro Point ADB . 79.

Acco

Disk Page (2 Pages) . 6

Addison Wesley

Inside Macintosh

Vol 1.2, or 4 . ea 21

Vol 3 . 18

Vol 5 . 23

Cross Reference . 9

Mac Prog Secrets . 19

Advanced Gravis

MouseStick . 64

MouseSbck (ADB) . 79.

Altra

Felix . 125

Apple

HyperCard 1.2 . 39

MacTerminal . 99

Toner Cartndges

LaserWriter II . 99

LaserWriter Plus . 96

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Address Labels

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Diskette Labels

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Mac Disks (630) . 29.

3.5’ (80) Color Coded . 4

File Folder Labels

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Laser Printer Labels

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Bantam Books

Illustrator 88 Handbook . 19.

Mastering Wingz . 21.

HyperCard Handbook . 22.

DataDesk

Hyper Dialer . 24

Mac 101 Keyboards . 135.

Datashield

MacDirector . 79.

Ergotron

MacTilt . 68.

Mouse Cleaner 360° . 9.

Fuji Double Sided Disks

10 Pack . 12.

Bulk (Units of 50) . ea. .79

Rainbow 10 Pack . 13.

Fuji High Density Disks

Bulk (Units of 50) . ea. 2.05

10 Pack . 22.

Rainbow 10 Pack . 24

Fujitsu

800k Disk Drive . 149

Golden Ribbons

Multi Colored . 7.

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Goldstein & Blair

Macintosh Bible . 19.

w/Book & Disk Combo . 26.

Kalmar Designs
Teakwood Disk File Cabinet

45 Disks . 14.

90 Disks . 21.

135 Disks . 29.

Kensington Microware

Apple Security Cable . 33.

Dust Cover - Mac SE . 8

Mac II Stand w/Cables . 64.

Super Base . 33

System Saver Mac . 64

THt Swivel . 21

Turbo Mouse 108

Universal Pnnter Stand 15

Synchronicity . $38

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ImageWriter Bag . 45

Mac Plus/SE Bag . 55

SE Bag (Ext. Keyboards) . 69

Mac Zone

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Mouse Pads . 6

SCSI Tester . 39.

Mac Tool Kit . 15.

Maxell Backup Tapes

150 Mb Tapes . 24

60 Mb Tapes . 19.

Microlytics

Personal Organizer . 92.

Mobius

Fanny Mac . 59

MSC Technologies

A+ Mouse (512k & Plus) . 58

A+ Mouse ADB . 78.

Portfolio Systems - Dynodex

Instant Address Book . 89

Sony Backup Tapes

Dc 2000 40 Mb. Tape . 19.

8mm Tape Cartridge . 26.

Sony Double Sided Disks
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10 Pack . 24.

Bulk (Units Of 50) . ea. 2.10

Syquest

44 Mb Cartridges . 89

Targus Bags

Dlx Mac SE (Ext. Kybd) Gray,

Black, Navy, or Wine . 68.

ImageWriter Bag Black . 45

Mac/SE Bag Black . 54

Williams & Macias

Sticky Business . 79.

ImageWriter

myDiskLabeler . 28

Labels, 216 . 15.

LaserWriter

Labels, 216 . 18

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Page-layout program for the
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PICTure This

Program converts graphics
files from various computer
systems into Mac PICT files.
Can be used as a desk acces¬
sory or separate application .
1MB min. memory. $99.
FGM, 703/478-9881.

PI Spooler

Spooler works with Data-
Pak’s HP printer drivers,
Printer Interface III; and
Printer Interface IV for Mac-
to-HP-LaserJet communi¬
cation. Performs back¬
ground printing, has now-
or-laterand preview-screen
options, and requires no
additional hardware. 1MB
min. memory. $69.96. Data-
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Ready for Action

Personnel-placement re-
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is built on an Oracle data¬
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word processor and net¬
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with a variety of operating
systems, such as IBM, DEC,
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memory. $1495. Spectra-

Tech. 203/357-7055.

Run

Integrated program for de¬
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Contains library of informa¬
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printed-circuit-board de¬
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levels of design beginning
with initial schematic. 1MB
min. memory. $1000 to
$9500. GmbH, Hard-und
Software. Spittlertorgraben
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SharpenUp

CDEV that adds controls to
the Page Setup dialog box
present in most standard
Mac applications. Product
is used to adjust halftone
level, screen angle, tone,
brightness, and contrast.
Allows you toscale line thick¬
ness to as little as V32 of
original size. 1MB min.
memory. $69. Somak Soft¬
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Shortcut

CDEV attaches to Open and
Save dialog boxes in any
application to organize and
manage files and folders
from within the application.
Transparently adds a free-
disk-space display and pull¬
down menu to standard
file dialog box. 1MB min.
memory. $79.95. Aladdin,
212/410-3080.

Sybase Open Client

Application-programming
interface designed to en¬
able third-party programs
and tools to be integrated
(continues)

with the Sybase SQL server.
Pn n icies custc inters with the
ability to integrate the Mac
into Sybase’s online appli¬
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min. memory. Each library
module $195. Sybase,
415/596-3500.

TypeAlign

DA that provides type-han¬
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you kern character pairs,
words, and phrases to Viooo
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manipulate, and distort
type into a variety of
shapes. 1MB min. memory.
$99.95. Emerald City Soft¬
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UltraPaint

Paint program combines
black-and-white painting,
color painting, gray-scale
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UltraPaint

color airbrush, masking,
customized color palettes,
gradients, and special ef¬
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ety of formats. 1MB min.
memory. $199. Deneba
Software, 305/694-6965.

Writer's Dreamtools

Set of three HyperCard
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Program that lets the user
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variety of word processing
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programs. Includes design
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volume of Clip3D clip
art. 512KE min. memory.
$199.95. Enabling Tech¬
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PC Guardian

Keyboard lock for the Mac
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Cushion covered with soft
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BY LON POOLE

hen PaulJ. Galanti of Indianapolis couldn’t
start up his Mac from either of his SCSI hard disks one morning,
he went crazy for half an hour. He could start up from a floppy disk,
but then neither hard disk icon appeared on the desktop. Finally he

discovered that one hard disk was
switched off. He switched that drive
on and both drives worked perfectly.
One of his drives is powered through a
switched outlet on the other drive, so
that ctne power switch controls the
power to both drives. He must have
switched off both power switches
when he shut down the night before.

He tried the tests I described last
September for determining if his Mac
512KE had the version of ROM (perma¬
nent memory) that prevents the Mac
Plus from starting unless all connected
SCSI devices are switched on. (It did
not. The symptoms were wrong any¬
way; that ROM version completely
prevents start-up, but he was able to
start up from a floppy. Furthermore,
only Mac Pluses built in the first couple
of months of that model’s production
have that first ROM version.)

Similar events baffle Robert H.
Fransen of Sherwood Park, Alberta,
Canada. He cannot start up his Ilex
from a SCSI hard disk unless all con¬
nected SCSI devices are on. To save
wear and tear, he would like to switch
off devices he isn't using.

It may be possible to solve start-up

problems with multiple SCSI devices
by changing cabling and termination.
Try standard termination first. Termi¬
nate the first device in the chain. If the
Mac has an in¬
ternal harddisk,
that’s the first
device in the
chain and has
built-in termina¬
tion. Terminate
the last device
in the chain.

Do not termi¬
nate any de¬
vices between
the first and last.

Be aware that
many external
hard disks — but
not Apple’s —
have built-in ter¬
mination that

should be removed if the drive is not
the first or last SCSI device connected
to the Mac. For specific instructions on
terminating or removing termination
from a SCSI device, see the owner’s
manual for the device.

If standard termination doesn’t

The creator of this drawing
construct precise ellipses.

solvestart-up problems, try adding one
or more terminators, extension cables,
or SCSI devices to the SCSI chain. But
I can’t guarantee that the right combi¬
nation of termination and cabling will
solve all start-up problems. Some SCSI
devices, especially ones made in 1986
or early 1987, simply must be on or the
other devices in the chain won’t work.

Be sure to switch off all SCSI de¬
vices — including the Mac — before con¬
necting or disconnecting any SCSI
cables or terminators. Other¬
wise you ’re likely
to damage the
SCSI electronics
in the Mac and
the SCSI pe¬
ripheral de¬
vices. The
j damage won’t
result in imme¬
diate failure, but
it can lead to a
costly repair bill
later on.

Now suppose
you’ve started
up the Mac with
a SCSI drive
switched off. loit¬
er you turn it on expecting to see its
icon appear on the desktop. It doesn’t.
You can use utility software to mount
the disk icon on the desktop. If no
such utility was included with your
disk drive, you can use Apple File Ex-
(continues)

used Adobe Illustrator to
See "Precision Ellipses."

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

241

QUICK TIPS

HOW TO

Precision Ellipses

You can construct an ellipse of any angle using Adobe Illustrator (the
instructions shown here are for a 30-degree angle). This technique works in
any drawing program that lets you freely rotate a line. (The drawing of
Telestar 4 at the beginning of Quick Tips shows off this technique.)

Begin by drawing a circle with the diameter
equal to the desired major axis of the ellipse

(hold down the Shift key while dragging the circle).

Draw a radius using the Pen tool w hile hold¬
ing down the Shift key. Make sure Snap to

point is checked under the Preferences menu.

With both ends of the radius highlighted,
select the Rotate tool. Hold down the Option
key and click the center point of the circle. In the
Rotate dialog box that appears, type 60 (90 minus the
desired ellipse angle). Then click the Copy button.

Holding dowm the Shift key, use the Pen tool
to draw a horizontal line from the end of the

rotated radius to the other side of the circle.

Select the circle and move it to the front
(press Command—). Using the Scale tool,
click the center point of the circle. Holding down the
Shift key, select and drag down the top handle of the
circle until it meets the horizontal line.

change (it’s on Macintosh Utilities Disk
2 of the system software) to mount the
drive. Or, you can use the SCSI Probe
Control Panel device (available on
CompuServe as file SCSI in library 4 of
the MACPRO forum and on Connect
as file “SCSIProbe cdev” in the file li¬
braries of the Mac Symposium forum).

Spaced Out

Although Word 4.0 is not as buggy as
Word 3 0, it has some serious prob¬
lems. Loris Biaggio of Giubiasco,
Switzerland, went back to Word 3 02
because of the way Word 4.0 aligns
paragraphs at the tops of pages. Word
3.02 ignores space before a paragraph
(as set using the Paragraph command)
if the paragraph falls at the top of a
page. For example, a heading having

242

12 points of space before it and falling
at the top of a left-hand page would,
with version 3-0.2, line up with a nor¬
mal paragraph having no space before
it and falling at the top of the facing
page. Word 4.0 never ignores space
before a paragraph when that para¬
graph falls at the top of a page. Using
the same example, the heading would
appear 12 points below the top mar¬
gin, while on the facing page, the nor¬
mal paragraph would appear at the
top margin. Working around this prob¬
lem is awkward, time-consuming, and
partially defeats the usefulness of style
sheets. You don’t define headings with
extra space before them. Instead, you
scroll to each heading in turn, select
the paragraph that precedes it, anti add
extra space after that paragraph.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

More Memory and MultiFinder

A while back I increased the mem¬
ory' in my Mac Plus to 2.5 mega¬
bytes. Naturally, I decided to try Multi-
Finder. Suddenly many of my former
routines didn’t work: DiskTop could
not open files with a double-click; the
StdFile XCMD did not preset the
folder in HyperCard; and HyperTalk's
Open command wouldn’t open a
document of an application that was
already open. What to do?

With System 7.0, will 2.5 mega¬
bytes still be enough to run Multi-
Finder? Can I add more memory to my
Mac Plus without damaging the power
supply or overheating?

James L. Swanson
Banff, Alberta, Canada

A You can safely increase memory
to 4MB. The four 1MB SIMMs in¬
volved draw about the same amount
of power and generate the same
amount of heat as the four SIMMs now
in your Mac (two 1MB and two 256K).
I think you'll want the extra memory. It
wouldn’t surprise me if System 7.0 on a
Mac Plus took up a good megabyte
more than System 6.0.3 does. Further¬
more, applications keep getting larger.

When you upgrade your system
software (or start using upgraded fea¬
tures), you may also need to upgrade
some of your applications. For ex¬
ample, DiskTop 4.0 opens files with
MultiFinder active whereas the previ¬
ous version (3.0.4) does not. The Hy¬
perTalk Open command does behave
in HyperCard 1.2.2 as you describe;
perhaps in HyperCard 2.0 it will work
as you wish. Other problems may be
caused by something unrelated to the
system software version. The StdFile
XCMD works fine for me using Hyper¬
Card 1.2.2 with MultiFinder 6.0.3.

Export Laser Prep

I know you can generate a Post¬
Script file instead of printing on a
LaserWriter. Is there any way to in¬
clude the PostScript code from the
Laser Prep file? I would like to print
Mac documents on a QMS Post¬
Script printer from an Amdahl mini¬
computer running UNIX. I don’t want
the Laser Prep to remain in the QMS
printer after a print job finishes.

Paul Lucas
Lisle, Illinois

Mysterious Mismatch

1 1 -point LaserWriter output at 200 percent 1 1 -point LaserWriter output at 1 00 percent

does does

Both examples have been enlarged to make the differences more visible

These two samples of 1 1 -point Palatino type do not exactly match. The left
sample was printed at 200 percent — effectively making it 22 points — on a
LaserWriter IINT and then photostatically reduced 50 percent. Because it
was printed at 22 points, it does not use Adobe’s built-in hints that
enhance the quality of type printed at small sizes. The right sample does
use the hints because it was printed at 100 percent on a LaserWriter IINT.

1 First, use the Chooser to choose a
t\ LaserWriter and to turn off back¬
ground printing (if it's on). If you’re
using a third-party print spooler, de¬
activate it for now. Next, choose Print
from the application’s File menu. Click
OK in the Print dialog box and imme¬
diately press 3€-K. (For a PostScript file
without the Laser Prep file, press S-F.)
Keep pressing until you see the mes¬
sage Creating PostScript® File. If the
document prints instead of the mes¬
sage appearing, you didn’t press SffS-K
fast enough. This procedure creates
a file with a name like PostScriptO. If
you can’t find it, use the Find File
desk accessory.

Masked Paint Objects

TIP: As the SuperPaint 2.0 manual
mentions, bitmapped (paint) objects
have a transparent fill when pasted in¬
to the draw layer. The manual describes
a painstaking method for creating a
mask using the Freehand Bezier tool.
Creating a mask is far easier with the
AutoTrace command in the Paint
menu. (“Mask” illustrates the effect.]
To create the mask, select the
bitmapped artwork in the paint layer
and use the AutoTrace command to
send an outline of the selection to the
draw layer. Next, go to the draw layer
and choose Group from the Draw
menu, which allows you to treat the
outline as one object. In the pattern
palette, select solid white for both the
line and fill of the mask. Now go back
to the paint layer, select the bitmapped
artwork again, and choose either Copy
to Drawing or Cut to Drawing from
the Edit menu. Finally, return to the
draw layer, select the bitmapped art¬
work and its mask, and use the Group
command to make them one.

Furman S. Baldwin
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

Mask

Bitmapped artwork like this skull is normally
transparent when pasted into SuperPaint’s draw
layer (left). A white or solid-color mask created by
the AutoTrace command and placed behind the
artwork makes the artwork opaque (right).

If your artwork lacks a solid perimeter,
using this method yields an incom¬
plete mask. Also, the AutoTrace com¬
mand sometimes creates a very com¬
plex drawing — lots of objects in the
mask — that will slow down SuperPaint
appreciably. You may be able to lessen
this side effect by using the AutoTrace
Settings command (Paint menu) to
select the Outline Only option. And if
an autotraced mask turns out to be
slightly too big, you can try making its
line pattern the same as the fill pat¬
tern of the object behind it in the
draw layer. — L.P.

Changes to Reduced Type
TIP: Some people print camera-
ready copy at 200 percent on a laser
printer and then have it photostati¬
cally reduced back down by 50 per¬
cent, improving the final resolution.
If you make a last-minute change by
pasting in some type, be sure to print
your change at 200 percent and have
it photostatically reduced before
pasting it in. Otherwise, the insert
may not match the rest of the type
[see “Mysterious Mismatch”] . This hap¬
pens because Adobe and some other
PostScript fonts include special in¬
structions, called hints, that improve
the look of a typeface in small sizes.
Usually, the hints make very thin lines
slightly thicker and add more space
to counters (open spaces). The hints
are not used for the larger sizes
you typically get when printing at
200 percent.

J. Michael Marriner

San Francisco, California

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

EasyTalk

TIP: To play two-player games like
Strategic Conquest, you must connect
two Macs. Instead of using LocalTalk
or PhoneNet connectors, you can run
a standard printer cable between the
printer ports of the two Macs.

John Willis

Frederick, Maryland

Directly connecting two Macs works OK at
distances less than 25 feet or so. You can
even connect a Mac to a LaserWriter with a
standard printer cable (Apple part M0197).
LocalTalk connectors and PhoneNet con¬
nectors contain transformers that electri¬
cally isolate the machines on the network
while still allowing the machines to send
and receive information. The connectors also
incorporate noise-suppression and ground-
protection circuitry. — L.P. □

We pay from $25 to $100 for tips pub¬
lished here. Send tips or questions
(include your address and phone
number) to Quick Tips, Macworld, 501
Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107.
Send electronic mail to CompuServe
(70370, 702 ) or MCI Mail (294-H07H).
All published submissions become
the property of Macworld.

Lon Poole answers readers' questions
and selects their tips for this monthly
column. His many personal comput¬
er books include HyperTalk (Micro¬
soft Press, 1988) and a new b(jok of
Mac tips (to be published soon by
Microsoft Press), Amazing Mac Facts

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How TO STAY ON SPEAKING TERMS WITH YOUR DISKS

BY JIM H E I D

floppy or hard disk is like a friend you can’t
quite trust. Most of the time, disks are faithful computing caddies
that hold our software and documents. Over time, it’s easy to
become smug about this give-and-take relationship. Then one of

them develops a case of amnesia, and
all of a sudden it’s “Files? What files? I
don't have any files.”

The fact is, disks can betray your
trust in a variety of ways. Their micro¬
scopic magnetic panicles can be led
astray by magnetic fields produced by
loudspeakers, telephones, electric
motors, and the Mac’s own power
supply. They’re susceptible to system
errors and program bugs, both of
which can cause inaccurate informa¬
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physical threats from spilled soda to
dust to extremes of heat and cold.
And hard disks can fall victim to head
crashes, in which the read-write heads
strike and damage the media surface.

How do you maintain a relation¬
ship with such fair-weather friends?
Use an umbrella — a backup utility ,
which stores copies of your files on
floppy disks or other storage devices.
Backups are to computers what vice
presidents are to governments: they
don’t do much when the sailing is
smooth, but w hen the worst happens,
they’re indispensable.

And since a gcxxi vice president
isn’t alwavs around when vou need

v x v

one, every software library also needs a
file-recover y utility. One of these res¬
cue squads can save the day if disk
problems occur or if you accidentally
throw away a file in between backups.

Last month we toured the world of
utilities — programs that make the Mac
easier and more convenient to use.
This month, I’ll take a closer look at
backup and file-recovery utilities, and
show' how to use both to make your
disks more trustworthy companions.

Backup Basics

Backing up floppies is easy, especial¬
ly if your Mac has two floppy drives.
First, lock the original disk by sliding
its plastic write-protect tab so you can
see through the square hole. Then in¬
sert the original disk in one drive and
the backup in the other
and drag the original
disk’s icon to the backup’s
icon. When the Finderasks
if you want to replace one
disk’s contents with those
of the other, click OK.
When the copy is com¬
plete, eject both disks;
unlock the original if you
plan to write to it again.

If your Mac has just
one drive, the floppy copy
routine is a bit trickier.
To avoid excessive disk
swapping, follow these
steps. First, insert the
backup disk and then
choose Eject from the File
menu. (The Finder dims the disk’s icon
to indicate it still “knows” about the
disk.) Next, lock the original disk, in¬
sert it, and then drag its icon to the
backup disk’s dimmed icon. When the
Finder asks if you want to replace the
backup disk’s contents, click OK. (You
will need to swap disks a few times
during the copying process.)

Backing up a hard disk is, well,
harder. To back up a full 40MB drive,
(continues)

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

247

GETTING STARTED

you’ll need about 50 800K disks — and
about an hour. Most people can think
of better ways to spend their time and
disk money. Until their hard disks
crash, that is.

But thanks to the Mac’s ability to
keep track of the date and time files
are created and modified, you need
not back up an entire hard disk during
each backup session. Backup utilities
can read the Mac’s digital datebook
and back up only those files you’ve
added or changed since the last full
backup. This task, called an incre¬
mental backup, takes far less time
than a full backup.

Backup Helpers

Every Mac comes with a barebones
backup utility, HD Backup, that lets
you perform full and incremental
backups to floppy disks. Virtually all
non-Apple hard disks include backup
software, too. And several software
firms offer backup programs that work
with any SCSI hard disk. Each program
handles the chore differently.

The most basic difference con¬
cerns how the backup program copies
files to your backup media. Some pro¬
grams, including SuperMac Technol¬
ogy’s DiskFit and Magic Software’s
Backmatic, copy each file separately
and then create on each backup disk
a catalog file that the program can use
to restore the files to the hard disk. On
the backup disk you’ll see each file just
as it existed on your hard disk. Need to
restore a few files? Simply use the Finder
to copy them from the backups to your
hard disk. ( If a given file won’t fit on a
single disk at backup time, the utility
splits it across multiple disks; you must
use the utility to restore such a file.)

Other programs, including Fifth
Generation Systems’ Fastback II,
Dantz Development’s Retrospect, and
Microseeds Publishing’s Redux, copy
your files into one large file that spans
all your backup disks. Instead of using
the Finder, you run the backup utility
and tell it to locate and restore the files
you need.

With the separate-files approach
used by DiskFit and Backmatic, you
can restore any file that fits on a single
backup disk without having to run the
backup utility. You’ll appreciate that if
the utility’s master disk becomes dam¬
aged, or if you take your backup disks

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HOW TO

to another machine but forget to take
along a copy of the utility.

With the one-file-holds-all ap¬
proach, if you don’t have the backup
utility, you don't have any backups —
but it does make possible faster back¬
up sessions and some fancy backup
gymnastics. Retrospect and Fastback
II, for example, can compress files as
they back them up, reducing the num¬
ber of backup disks required. Fastback
II can also record special error-correc¬
tion codes that enable the program to
recover data from damaged backups.
Fifth Generation Systems claims Fast-
back II can recover all the data from a
backup disk even if up to 10 percent
of its contents are damaged.

Incremental Differences

Another factor to consider is whether
the program saves or deletes older
versions of files you back up. For ex¬
ample, say you begin writing a pro¬
posal on Monday morning and then
do a full backup on Monday evening.
You work on the proposal again on
Tuesday and then do an incremental
backup. What happens to the backup
of Monday’s version?

It depends on the program you
use. DiskFit and Redux replace older
versions of files with their newer ver¬
sions. That keeps your mountain of
backup disks from growing too high,
but it also eliminates the option of
going back a few days to an earlier
version of a file. If you decide Tues¬
day’s version of your proposal stinks
— or worse, if your word processing
program somehow scrambles the file,
and you unknowingly back up the
scrambled version — you don’t have
Monday’s version to fall back on. (I’ll
present a workaround for this poten¬
tial nightmare shortly.)

By contrast, Retrospect and Back¬
matic don’t replace earlier versions of
files. Fastback II lets you choose
whether older versions should be de¬
leted or saved. That gives you an extra¬
strong safety net, but it also means
you need more disks to hold your
backups. That could be significant if
you’re backing up large files such as
scanned images.

Choosing Your Backup Weapon

Here are some other points to address
before buying a backup utility.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

■ Network support. If you use network
software like TOPS or AppleShare,
you’ll want a backup utility that sup¬
ports it. For example, to back up an
AppleShare file server, look for a util¬
ity that backs up each folder’s access
privilege information. Retrospect and
SuperMac’s Network DiskFit do.

■ Backup selectivity. If you want to
rely on your original application disks
as backups, you can back up docu¬
ments only and cut your backup time.
But some programs give you more flex¬
ibility than others in choosing files
to back up. DiskFit and Network Disk-
Fit are the least flexible, offering just
two backup choices: applications and
system files only, or documents only.
Fastback II, Redux, and Retrospect
enable you to be extremely selective.
Backmatic doesn’t back up application
files at all, and it lets you exclude spe
cific types of documents (such as all
Excel files) as well as specific folders.

■ Media support. If you plan to use a
backup medium other than floppy
disks, be sure to buy a program that
supports your chosen medium. (To
find out what other media are avail¬
able, see “Media Circus.”) Retrospect
can back up to virtually anything. Fast-
back II, DiskFit, and Redux support
tape drives, as long as they display
tapes as icons on the Finder’s desktop.

■ Unattended operation. If you use a
file server in a busy office, you might
want to back it up at night, when it’s
idle. If so, you’ll need Fastback II or
Retrospect. Both let you specify inter¬
vals for unattended backups (see
“Scheduled Maintenance”). But since
no one will be around to shuffle flop¬
pies, you’ll need to use a high-capacity
backup medium such as a second hard
disk or a tape drive.

■ Programmability. If you have very
specific backup needs — perhaps you
want to back up all PageMaker and
Excel documents at 8 p.m. every' Tues¬
day — consider a program that lets you
automate the types of backups you do.
Retrospect and Fastback II offer the
strongest automation features. Redux
finishes second.

■ Ease of use. Backing up is boring; a
program that’s difficult to learn won’t
encourage the practice. Alas, ease of
use and power are at opposite ends of
the seesaw. The two most powerful
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backup programs — Fastback II and
Retrospect — have steep learning

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Df your hard disk holds
more than 40MB — or if
you lack the patience for
shuffling floppies — consider an
alternative backup medium.
One possibility is a second hard
disk. Today you can buy two
40MB drives for less than what
one 20MB drive cost a few years
ago. And you'll have a spare
drive if the first one acts up.

Another alternative is a
tape drive such as GCC Tech¬
nologies' HyperTape or Archive
Corporation's MaxStream.
Their primary strength: capac¬
ity. Most tape drives store be¬
tween 40MB and 300MB on
cassettelike tape cartridges.
Some drives, such as Personal
Computer Peripherals Corpora¬
tion's PCPC Tape Backup, use
8mm video cassettes that hold
over 2000MB. Their primary
weakness: performance. Locat¬
ing a specific file on a tape car¬
tridge can be slow since the drive
can't randomly access any point
on the tape.

The most versatile backup
device is a removable-media
drive such as Iomega's Ber¬
noulli Box or Mass Microsys¬
tem's DataPak. (The DataPak
uses a popular removable hard
disk technology developed by
Syquest; other drives that use it
include Ehman Engineering’s
45MB Removable Hard Drive
and PLI's Infinity 40 Turbo.)
These combine a hard disk's
speed and capacity with the
insert-and-eject convenience
of floppies (see "Hard Disk Alter¬
natives, "Macworld, July 1989).
And unlike tape drives, remov¬
able-media drives can be used
as a primary storage device.

HOW TO

curves. If your backup needs don't
demand automation and sophisticated
file-selection features, consider a sim¬
pler program. Redux strikes an excel¬
lent balance between power and sim¬
plicity. DiskFit and Network DiskFit
are a breeze to use, but they don’t al¬
low you to be very selective.

Backmatic is an elegant little utility.
It’s a start-up document (an INIT) that
intercepts the Mac’s shut-down pro¬
cess. Choose Shut Down, and a dialog
box asks if you want to back up the
files you worked on that day. Click Yes,
insert floppies as needed, and Back¬
matic does the rest. You can’t beat it —
provided you don’t need to back up
applications or files that won’t fit on
a single floppy disk. (Version 1.1, in
development at this writing, will be
able to split large files on multiple
disks and will offer features designed
for backing up Macs on a network. It
will also monitor battery power on the
Macintosh Portable, suggesting you
back up when power drops below a
specified point.)

Backup Plans

How will you use your backup pro¬
gram? You’ll probably start by doing a
full backup, following up with incre¬
mental backups at regular intervals.
Here are some guidelines and tips.

■ Make two backups. Your backup
disks are prone to the same ailments as
your originals. For extra safety, make
two backups, and alternate them (see
“Backup Strategies”). And consider
keeping one set in a different location,
for added protection against theft as

Scheduled Maintenance
Retrospect (top) and Fastback II (bottom) do auto¬
matic backups at regular intervals — provided your
backup medium can hold all the files that will be
copied. Retrospect's Auto Launch option causes
the program to start itself up at a specified time.

well as fire and water damage.

■ Use the Control Panel’s disk cache.
Most backup programs run faster
when the Mac’s disk cache is on. If
your program’s manual doesn’t pro¬
vide cache-size guidelines, try 64K.
Restart your Mac after adjusting cache
settings to put them into effect.

■ Create an emergency-restore floppy
disk. Put copies of the Finder, the Sys¬
tem file, and your backup utility on a
floppy disk. If your hard disk crashes,
you can start up with this floppy and
use it to restore your files. (Depending
on how your hard disk crashed, you

Backup Strategies

Full backup
Incremental backup 1
Incremental backup 2

One technique for backing up a hard disk is to
rotate among three well-marked sets of back¬
up disks or other media. With this technique,
if one set of backups goes bad, you have two
other sets to fall back on.

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Diagnose & Recouer: Hard Disk

O Quick Cure (HFS disks only)

recovers files without uerifying all of
the disk's sectors

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Three software rescue squads in action: Norton Uti¬
lities (top). Disk 1 st Aid (middle), and SUM II (bottom).

may first need to reinitialize it using
the software that accompanied it.)

■ Don’t forget customized files. To
save time, you may want to tell your
backup program to ignore files in the
System Folder. That’s a good idea,
provided you don’t forget to back up
the custom files that may also live
in the System Folder. Such files in¬
clude word processor spelling-check¬
er dictionaries that contain your own
entries, preferences files that store
your application preferences, the
Scrapbook file, and the System file it¬
self, which contains your fonts and
desk accessories.

■ Verify your backups. Most backup
utilities have a verify option, which,
when active, causes the program to
proofread its work as it backs up files.
If a disk error causes a file to be written
inaccurately, the verification process
catches it, and the utility tries again.
Verification lengthens the backup
process, but that's a small price to pay
for more reliable backups.

Digital Doctors

What happens if you lose a file in be¬
tween backups? If you’re smart, you 'll
reach for a file-recovery utility such as
Symantec’s Symantec Utilities for Mac¬
intosh (SUM), IstAid Software’s IstAid
Kit, Central Point Software’s PC Tools
Deluxe for the Macintosh, and Peter
Norton Computing’s Norton Utilities
for the Macintosh (scheduled to ap¬
pear in February). These products can
often repair and resurrect damaged
disks and files. They do so by working
intimately with the reserved areas of
a disk — areas that don’t store docu¬
ments or applications but instead
hold information the Mac uses to
keep track of files.

Reserved areas have technical
names like volume allocation bitmap
and extents b-tree. The Mac takes these
magnetic tables of contents at face
value; it assumes they’re intact and
contain valid data. When they don’t —
when a system crash, program bug, or
stray magnetic field scrambles their
contents — the Mac may be unable to
retrieve part or all of the disk’s con¬
tents. File-recovery utilities can ana¬
lyze these areas and often correct inac¬
curate entries and thus retrieve files
that the Mac thinks are gone (see
“Recovery Tools”).

The aforementioned products can
also save the day when you acciden¬
tally throw away a file. All three include
INITs that spy on you as you use a disk.
When you delete a file, the INIT makes
notations on disk that indicate where
that file is physically located on the
disk. The file is still there; the Mac has
simply removed its entry from the
disk’s electronic table of contents.
Should you need to resurrect the file,
you run the file-recovery utility, which
reads those notations and recreates
the file’s table of contents entry. (Prose¬
cutors for the Iran-Contra trial used
similar techniques to resurrect memos
Oliver North thought he’d deleted
from his word processor.)

But there is a catch: if you worked
extensively with the disk after deleting
the file, some of its contents may have
been replaced by newer files. So when
you realize you’ve accidentally deleted
a file, stop using that disk until you can
run the recovery utility. Even if a recov¬
ery utility can’t automatically resurrect
a file, there’s still hope. All three prod¬

Disk Editing

When a file-recovery program's automatic
recovery features fail you. turn to its disk editor
(SUM Il’s is shown here). By searching for text
present in the lost file, you may be able to locate
some or all of its data and copy it to a new file —
or at least retype it. The four-character columns in
the left portion of the display show each charac¬
ter's hexadecimal value, while the rightmost col¬
umn shows the characters themselves. The hexa¬
decimal value selected here (6) is part of the two-
character value that represents the letter c.

ucts include disk editors, which let you
directly view and alter the disk’s con¬
tents (see “Disk Editing”).

The previous paragraphs contain
several oftens and maybes. The fact
is, file-recovery utilities don’t always
succeed. A visit to a doctor isn’t a sub¬
stitute for good health habits, nor can a
file-recovery utility replace a good
backup routine.

And speaking of good health hab¬
its, keep disks — floppy or hard — away
from excessive moisture, stray mag¬
netic fields, extremes of heat or cold,
and dusty environments. Pack them
securely for shipping. (Save your hard
disk’s original box or your Mac’s box,
if you have an internal drive.) If you
move them from one temperature
extreme to another, give them time to
acclimate before using them. And never
move or jostle a hard disk while it’s on.

Following these common-sense
precautions can lessen the chances
that you’ll need to restore data
from backups or use a recovery pro¬
gram. In short, disks may be fair-wea¬
ther friends, but you can control the
weather. □

Jim Heid is a Macworld contributing
editor who each month focuses on a
different aspect of Mac fundamen¬
tals. His latest book, coauthored with
Peter Norton, is Inside the Apple Macin¬
tosh, an advanced user’s guide to the
Mac, published by Brady Books

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

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MicroStation Mac supports a maximum of eight
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HOW TO

Insights on Wingz 1. 1

Spreadsheet tips for frequent flyers

BY CHARLES SEITER

fingz gave Mac enthusiasts the splashiest
new-product introduction the marketplace has yet seen, and when
Wingz actually arrived it proved that there was something quite
spectacular behind all the spaceships, tour jackets, and other

paraphernalia. Version 1.1 offers for¬
matting and charting enhancements,
better SYLK file support, improve¬
ments in the already impressive Hyper-
Script language, and other useful new
touches such as autosave and object
locking. Here’s an assortment of tips
to help you get the most from Wingz.
Thanks to Informix staffers Keith
Brown, Kathleen Burnham, Keith
Goosey, and Kevin Long for their
help in preparing this column.

HyperScript Tips

Although HyperScript is an easy lan¬
guage to read and write, you still must
expect to spend a certain amount of
time debugging scripts if you want to
create your own functions. A straight¬
forward approach to script debugging
is to load the script file with the Get
Script command, which makes it avail¬
able for editing and testing, and then
clear it with Remove Script.

A faster technique is to use Open
Script to identify the file and Run to
load it. The function you’re implement¬
ing in the script is now available to be
called, just as it is with Get Script, but
with the added benefit of retaining
variables and their assigned values in
memory. Thus, you're better able to
see what your function is actually
doing; you can insen a few reporting
steps in the script to inspect interme¬
diate values as well. When you compile
the script, you lose the variable assign¬

ments, so you should postpone com¬
piling until you are satisfied that your
function has been tested sufficiently.

Graph Fix

Wingz can create dramatic 3-D graphs,
but they can look jagged when pasted
into other applications. For smooth
graphics-file exporting, select the
Scale command from the Window
menu, choose 400% from the pop-up
•submenu, . and then choose Copy.
Copying to the Clipboard this way ef¬
fectively gives you 300-dots-per-inch
resolution on the selected object when
you paste it into the other application,
rather than the 72-dpi screen resolu¬
tion you get by scaling at 100 percent.

Wingz graphing commands
allow for fairly easy modifi¬
cation of graph types.

The standard XY chart
expects only one set of
data points (x,.y), but
there is a way to plot
multiple data sets.

First select two con¬
tiguous columns of
data, an x column and
a y column. Create a
chan with the chart
tool and change the
chart type to XY (a
Gallery choice under
Graph). The chan will show'
a single legend at the right —
click on this and a circle appears

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

on it, showing that the y data series
has been selected. Now pick Add Se¬
ries from the Series submenu under
Graph. Hold down the3€ key, reselect
your x series and select the range of
data for the second^ series (this can
be anywhere on your spreadsheet) . Re¬
lease the key and select Range from
the Series submenu. The line repre¬
senting the new y series will appear on
the chart (see “The Plot Thickens”).

You may want to generate some
scripts as you go along, giving yourself
macros for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-series XY
charts. Just pick New Script and Learn
as you produce a 5-series chart, and
then delete script sections from the
end to produce scripts for the simpler
charts.

The default settings for 3-D graphs
work well for simple data sets, but to
make presentation-quality graphics
in more complex cases you should
experiment with the Chart Info com¬
mand under Format. Chart Info
lets you set the width of
data series, add space
between them, or
fit the series
(continues)

INSIGHTS

The Plot Thickens

You can add extra data series to an XY chart in
Wingz by using a simple set of commands.
Better still, you can capture the commands
and line-by-line formatting as a script (shown
at right) — then you just run the script the next
time you need this type of multiline XY chart.

side by side with no spaces (see “Period
of Adjustment”). After making these
width and spacing adjustments, you
will also want to experiment with the
View submenu under 3D Info — this is
how you change the viewing perspec¬
tive on the 3-D bars in the chart picture.

Formatting Matters

Wingz has a set of formatting defaults
that, like much of the rest of the pro¬
gram, can be customized. The defaults
are contained in a HyperScript file
called Startup, which normally contains
some script items for adding functions
(Cell Size, Delete Block, Insert Block,
and Text/Value Conversion) to the
default Sheet menu. You can add any
HyperScript command to Startup. One
common variation is a command for se¬
lecting a different default text font. For
example, to change the default font to
Times, simply add the command

text font "times"

to the Startup Script. You could, if you
liked, select colors, borders, and other
formatting defaults. Before tinkering,
make sure you have a copy of the stan¬
dard Startup Script somewhere.

Another, more flexible, way to
change formats is to record a set of for¬
matting defaults as a HyperScript file
and run the script in this file after you
open a spreadsheet in the usual way.

One thing you may want to do fair¬
ly often in Wingz is clear a block of
cells hut retain its formatting informa¬
tion If you simply choose Clear after
selecting the block, all formatting is
lost. To save formatting in Wingz 1.0,

254

HOW TO

you had to select the block and then
choose Copy, Clear, anti Paste Format
from the Edit menu. Wingz 1.1 has
added a new Edit command. Clear
Special, that lets you retain yourchoice
of formatting, data, or formulas. The
new version also has a Paste Special
command that provides a simple way
to convert a block of formula results to
plain numbers.

Imported Goods

Many Wingz users have occasion to
translate files from the PC program

Period of Adjustment

You can change the shape and spacing of the blocks
in a 3-D bar chart with the obscurely located Chart
Info command under Format.

Lotus 1-2-3, since Wingz can deal di¬
rectly with Lotus’s WKS and WK1 for¬
mat files. Wingz can also read and write
SYLK files, making it easy to exchange
files with Microsoft spreadsheets. If you
get an unable-to-read-file-format error
message during the import process,
that’s because the Wingz file-import func-
tion can’t handle the null characters
contained in most Lotus files. To get
around this problem, just import Lotus
files through the Apple File Exchange
utility (included with System 6.0), which
automatically removes null characters.

Another import glitch can occur if
Wingz is set to read a tab-delimited text
file that has been padded with spaces
or nulls to maintain fixed-length fields.
This sometimes happens when a data¬
base program, for example, is told to
save a file as text. Wingz sees the spaces
and thinks it’s seeing character fields.
The fix for this lies in a new choice on
the Sheet menu called Text Value Con¬
version. Added by the Startup Script,
Text/Value Conversion evaluates all
cell entries and decides which of
them were actually intended to be
numbers, accidental leading spaces
notwithstanding.

MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

Print Hint

To print page numbers at the bottom
of each page of a multipage printout,
put the character pair <StP in any cell
and then select the cell. Chtxtse the
Report command from the Sheet menu,
and then the Report Ftx^ter Range se¬
lection from the Report submenu.
These commands make the program
print the correct page number as a
footer, which you can also position
(left, center, right) with commands
from the Report submenu.

The Wingz spreadsheet printing
default gives you a border around
your printout. You can hide the border
using these two sets of steps: first,
choose the Select command from the
Go menu and select the Report
Border option from the submenu
(you have to scroll down to find it);
second, from the Format menu
choose Border and pick None from
the luxuriant choice of possible bor¬
der styles (see “Border Patrol”).

-r-r-T-f>i»i

Border Patrol

There have been few programs since the dawn of
computing with such elaborate facilities for produc¬
ing borders on printouts as Wingz. If you follow the
sequence of steps listed in the tip. at long last you
reach this dialog box from which you can select None
as well as fancy types.

Sharing the Wealth

If you’ve found a tip or shortcut not
mentioned here, spread the word to
other Macworld readers by sending it
to Quick Tips, Macworld. SOI Second
St., San Francisco, CA 94107. □

See Where to Buy for contact information.

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uting editor and beta-tester of many
Mac spreadsheet programs His pri¬
mary' interest is in macro program¬
ming for scientific applications.

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Product Comparison

Product V. Req. Rev.

Price

Product

Req.

Rev.

Price

Product

Req.

Rev.

Price

1 st Aid Kit

2.8

5128E80

•

Business

1.5

1 MB/6 02

•

DragonWave

1.1

1 MB/6 03

•

4th Dimension

2.0

1 MB/6 02

3/90

•

FiieVrsron

Empower

205

1MB/5.0

889

Free

Aatrix

2.01

512K/4 1

$10

Business

1.2

1MB/6.0

•

EndLmk

1.1

512K/3.2

Free

CheckWriter II

Sense

EndNote

1.2

51 2KH/3.2

6/89

Free

Aatrix

2.0

5128/4 2

Free

Business

3.2

512K/3.2

Free

Extender

3.0

1 MB/6 02

$30

TimeCard

Session

GrafPak

Accountant Inc.

2.1

1 MB/6 02

$9.50

CACricket

2.0

1 MB/6 0

Free

Falcon

2 1

1 MB/3 2

Free

AccuText

1.1

4MB/602

•

Presents

Fastback II

2.1

512KE/4 1

12/89

$25

AdWnter

2.0

1 MB/6.0

Free

Calculator

2.05

51288 2

$25

Fast Forms

1.2

51288.2

$25

Alchemy

1.1

1 MB/6 0

1/89

$25

Construction Set

Ferrari

1.6

51288 2

$10

Aldus

2.0

1 MB/6.03

6/89

•

Canvas

2.1

1 MB/6.0

4/89

Free

Grand Pnx

FreeHand

Capture

2.0

1 MB/6.0

2/90

$15

FileMaker II

1.1

1 MB/4.2

•

Aldus

2.02

1 MB/4.1

•

ChromaScan

1.1

4MB/6.02

Free

Finale

1.2

1 MB/6.02

Free

PageMaker

Colorset

1.2

1 MB/6.0

Free

Financial

3.0

51 2K/3.0

•

Aldus

2.0

1 MB/6.0

6/89

•

Comment

202

1 MB/6.0

2/89

•

Analysis

Persuasion

Commtact

2.0

1 MB/6.0

Free

Fmdswell

2.0

5128E8.2

3/90

•

AmPack Plus

4.22

512K/3.2

1/90

$29.95

Comptielt

1.2

1 MB/6.02

Free

Fontographer

3.0

1 MB/6 0

•

Analog Connection

3.0

1 MB/5.0

$50

CompuServe

2.1

51288.2

•

FontShare

2.0

1MB/6.0

Free

Work Bench

Navigator

FoxBase+/Mac

210

1 MB/6.0

$75

Anatool

3.1

512K/3.0

7/89

$35

Control

1.5

1 MB/4.1

Free

Freedom

2.2

1 MB/6.0

Free

AntiToxin

1.2

5128E/4 2

2/90

Free

Cue

3.0

1 MB/6 03

•

of Press

A PL 68000

7.0

512K/3 2

•

DataDesk

3.0

51 2K/4.02

$125

FreeFlow

3.0

1 MB/6.03

Free

AppleShare

2.0

51 2K/3.2

•

Data Merge

2.0

51289.2

Free

Full

1.1

1 MB/6.0

Free

File Server

Deluxe Music

2.5

512K/6.02

9/89

Impact

Archie

2.0

1 MB/6 0

$75

Construction Set

FullWnte

1.1

2MB802

Free

ArchiText

2.0

1 MB/6.02

789

Free

0.E.S

4.0

1MB/6.0

•

Professional

Aristotle s

2.0

2MB6 03

Free

Design

2.15

5MB/6.03

Free

Gofer

2.01

1MB. 4 1

$25

Polttrcs

Dimensions

Grafpomt

2MB/6.0

•

The Art

2.0

1 MB/6 0

889

$20

DeskPamt

2.1C

5128E/4.2

Free

Help DA

1MB60

Free

Importer

DiagramMaker

1.1

1 MB/6.02

•

HFS Backup

3.0

5128/32 899 $35

ArtRoom

3.0

5128/3.2

$199

Digital Darkroom

1.1

1 MB/6 .02 2 89

Free

Hybase

1MB6.0

Free

AutoCalc

2.0

1 MB/6.0

$95

OiskFrt.

1.5

5128/4.1

•

HydroMac

2.0

1MB, 6 0

•

A/tec C

3.6

512KE/4 2

•

Network DiskFrt

Hyper Animator

1.5

1 MB 6 03 889 $29 95

Back to Basics

2.0

51283 2

$75

DiskTop

1 MB/6 0

•

HyperCard

12.2

1MB8 03

$10

Professional

Display

1.1

1 MB/6.03

•

HyperOA

1.2

51288.2

$10

Ball b Stick

1 MB/6 0

Free

AdBuilder

HyperEngme

1.1

1MB 6 03

Free

Bit It

1 MB/6 .03

$29

Dollars

4.1

512KE82

•

Developer's Tool

Bridge

5128/3.2

$17

and Sense

HyperLibrary

2.0

1 MB/5 0

•

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Product Comparison

Product

Req. Rev.

Price

Product

Req

Rev.

Price

HypwPort

1M8/6 0

510

MacProject II

2.0

IMB/6 0

899

•

Own

Mac Proof

3.2.1

1MB/6 02

2/90

530

HyperWmdows

1.1

1 MB/6 02

Free

MacRecorder

2.0

512K/3.2

12/89

•

Icon#

1.2

1 MB/6 0

•

MacScheduHe

2.0

IMB/60

530

leone

7.0

1M8/6 0

•

MacSmarts

3.0

IMB/60

'»<*

1.1

1MB 6 0

Free

MacTeW

3.5

512K/3.0

ImageStudio

1MB/6 0

Free

MacTermmal

231

512K/3.2

Free

ImageWriter IQ

2.0

512103 2

Free

MacVision

3.0

IMB/6 0

7/89

57995

Print Driver

MacWrite 11

1.1

IMB/6 0

Free

InCAO

2.0

2M8/6 0

Managing

2.0

512IC./6.03

549.95

Intologic

512KE/4.0

Your Money

Envelope

MapGrafix

2.0

4MB/6.03

Free

Insight Expert

IMB/60

MarketMaster

11 +

1 MB/6.03

525

Accounts Payable

Master

4.0

1 MB/4 1

545

Insight Export

2.2

1 MB/6.02

Tracks Pro

Accounts Receivable

MathType

2.0

512K/6.02

11/89

Inspiration

2.0

1 MB/4 2

Free

Matlab

1.2

1 MB/3.0

Instant Expert

3.0

1 MB/5.0

Free

MaxPage

1.2

5 12109.2

Free

Plus

McMax

2.0

1 MB/5.0

8/89

•

JetLmk Express

1.01

1 MB 6 0

Free

Memorybank

1 MB/6.0

Free

KidsTime

1.2

512K/3.2

515

Manager

KiwiEnveiopes

3.0

512KE/4 1

510

MGMStation

2.5

512KE/3.0

4/89

Language Systems

1.2

1 MB/6.03

•

Microsoft File

4.0

512K/3.2

4/89

Fortran Compiler

Microsoft Mail

2.0

1 MB/6.02

1/90

LapLink Mac

2.0

512102.0

Free

Microsoft Word

4.0

512KE/3.2

10/89

LaserPamt

1.02

1 MB/6.03

Free

Microsoft Works

1.2

512K/6.0

4/89

Color II

MmdWnte

2.1

51 2KE/4.2

LetrTuck +

2.0

512K/3.2

520

MiniCad +

2.0

IMB/60

11/89

Lookup

2.0

IMB/6 0

MimDraw

4.0

5T2KE/4.2

517

Mac 86

2.0

1 MB/6.02

510

MockPackage Plus

4.4

512KE8.2

515

Mac?86

2.0

1 MB/6.02

510

Utilities

Mac3270

1 MB/6.03

•

Modern Artist

2.0

2MB/6.02

5150

MacArchitnon

4.0

2MB/6.03

Free

Monte Carlo

2.0

1 MB/6.03

560

MacAtlas

2.0

512K/3.2

535

More II

2.01

1 MB/4.1

6/89

Free

Paint

MSFL: Pro League

2.0

1 MB/6.0

•

MacCImt

1.1

1 MB/5.0

Free

Football

MacConcept

3.0

1 MB/6.03

•

MultiLedger

1.1

512103.2

Free

MacDesrgnet

2.0

1MB/3.2

5297

Multi-User

3.01

512K/3.2

•

MacDraw II

1.1

1 MB/6.0

•

Appointment Diaries

MacEnvelope

4 1

512K/3.2

•

Music

2.0.3

IMB/60

Free

Macfalcon

2.1

1 MB/6.03

Publisher

MacFlow

1ME06 03

530

MyTimeManager

2.0

IMB/60

•

MacFortran

2.4

5121042 3/89

Navigate

2.0

IMB/6 0

Free

Macfortrarv020

512104.2 3/89

Nemesis Go

4.0

512104.1

6/89

MacFortran

1.1

2M6/5.02

Free

Master

tor MPW

The NightWatch

1 03

512KE/3.2

Mac Herbal

2.0

512K/32

549

Nisus

2.0

1 MB/6 02

9/89

Free

Mac Hotel

3.3

1 MB/6.03

Free

NuPaint

104

512103.2

5/89

Free

Maclrne

3.0

512103.0

525

Nutrition

2.0

IM8/6.02

520

MacLmkPUis,

4.0

51 2KE/3.2

545

Stack

Wang VS

OmniPage

4MB/6.02

2/90

5160

MacMamFrame

3270/Cl/T

2 6MB. 6 02

5100

Omms 3 Plus,

Express

2.0

612KE/3.2

Mac Phonebook

2.0

512KF/32 1/90

2.0

1 MB/3 0

Mac Print

1MB '6.02

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1. Which Network
Doesn’t Tie Up A
Valuable Macintosh *
As A File Server?

D AppleShare D TOPS
□ DaynaNET

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Hint: AppleShare®
requires a dedicated
Macintosh® as a file server. DaynaNET™ runs on
an inexpensive yet fast IBM® compatible 286
or 386 personal computer. Distributed networks
such as TOPS® don’t require a dedicated file
server, but steal processing power from every Mac¬
intosh on the network.

2. Does A Real Network Need A Dedi¬
cated File Server Anyway ?

□ Yes DNo

Hint: A file server provides centralized storage
and management of information and a basis for
running multiuser applications. Dedicating the
file server improves the networks performance,
reliability, and security. Even small networks
can benefit from a dedicated file server.

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Operating System
Is The Fastest?

□ AppleShare
□ DaynaNET

□ tops

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the Macintosh or MS-DOS® operating system.
This slows them down. The DaynaNET operating
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advantage of all its speed and processing power.

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Outgrow?

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Hint: You soon outgrow a distributed network
such as TOPS,
because its
performance
deteriorates as
you add users.

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requires addi¬
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Product V. Req. Rev. Price

Product

Req.

Rev

Price

P51 Mustang

204

512163.2

4/89

110

SmartScrap

2.0

1MB/8 03

899

120

Fkght Simulator

6 The Clipper

Pacert.it*

5.0

512165 0

•

Snap

3.1

1MB/30

9/89

Panorama

1.1

1 MB/4.2

5/89

Free

SoftPC Mac

1.3

2M8/60

PEGASYS II

1MB/6.03

Free

Sound Designer

1.5

512165.03

$45

Perform*

3.2

1 MB/6 0

Free

Universal

Sequence!

Spellswell

2.1

512K/32

3/90

Persona!

2.0

5121032

2/90

Free

Springboard

1 MB/6.0

3/89

Golf Stats

Publisher

Personal

2.0

1 MB/6.0

110

Stepping Out It

2.0

1 MB/4,1

4,99

Free

Reference Catalog

StickyBusmess

1.06

512KE/6.03

Free

PICT Detective

2.0

512KE/60

120

Still Light

3.0

1 MB/6.0

Free

PutelPamt

1.2

2MB/4.1

Free

StrataVision 3d

1.02

2MB/6 03

Free

Plains b Simple

1 06

1MB/3.2

•

Suitcase II

3.0

512KE/4 1

10/89

$25

Power Dr aw

3.0

1 MB/6.0

•

Super 3d

2.0

512KE/6.02

10/89

$200

PowerStation

2.5.2

512K/4 1

Free

SuperGlue II with

2.1

1MB'6.0

1/90

PowerToois

3.0

4 MB/6.0

•

GlueNotes

Practice

2.)

512K/3.2

110

SuperlaserSpool

2.0

512K/4.1

120

Musica

SuperPamt

2.0

1 MB/6.02

8/89

150

Printer

512K/6.02

122 50

SuperSpool

5.0

5I2K/4.1

120

Interface III

Synchromcity

2.0

512KE/3.2

12/89

15.00

Pro-Cite

1.3

512K/4.1

•

Systat

3.2

1 MB/6.0

299

$75

Professional

2.3

1 MB/6.03

Free

Teacher's

2.2

51 2K/3-2

$1795

Composer

Rollbook

Professional

1 MB/6.0

122

Ternary

3.0

512K/3.2

Image II

Plot

PropsForms

2.0

1 MB/6.03

Free

TextPert

3.01

1 MB/6.0

Free

Prototyper

2.01

1 MB/4.1

9/89

$79

Think C

4.0

1 MB/5.0

290

Publish or

3.0

512KE/3.2

$10

Timbuktu

3.0

1 MB/4.1

Free

Perish

TimeMinder

2.0

1 MB/4.2

9/89

$50

Pyro

3.31

512K/4.1

$10

Timeslips lit

1.2

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512K/4-0

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512KE/3.2

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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

261

Abaton helpsTom Zimberoff
spend a lot more time in the dark.

For Tom Zimberoff, finding time to take
pictures isn’t easy. He’s in demand. As one
of the premier portrait photographers in the
world, he’s shot everyone from John Sculley
to John Lennon, Groucho Marx to Jimmy
Swaggart. He’s shot for Time, SPY, People,
GQ, Fortune, and a variety of advertising agencies.

Which means he doesn’t have a whole lot of time to meet with
art directors, editors, or clients. “But now I spend more time behind
the camera, thanks to Abaton.”

“With the Abaton Interfax, I can exchange faxes with art
directors and editors all over the world.” Tom checks out a fax of
the layout and finds out what his client wants. Then he faxes his
estimate to them directly from his Mac, and avoid “an hour’s drive
or a four-hour flight for a 15-minute meeting.”

Abaton and "Wr Makr Your Idra* Faster to Publish” are trademarks of Everrx Systems. Inc. Other brand names and
product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

Tom also uses an Abaton 8-bit Upgrade in his Apple Scanner
to scan Polaroids of each shoot. He stores the images together
with information on his assignments. So it’s easy for him to look
up the details later on. And when it’s time to print, Tom uses the
Abaton Quickstep printer “because I want my letters to look as
good as my photographs.”

Tom may not be your typical Abaton user. But the productivity
he gets out of his Abaton equipment is typical of Abaton users. An
because Abaton helps Tom spend more time in the dark; it’s easie
for him to get published.

If you’d like to publish — or get published — faster and easier
call Abaton at 1-800-444-5321. We can make your ideas easier

Abaton

We Make Your Ideas Easier to Publish

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❖

WHERE TO BUY

This listing provides
companies and phone
numbers for products
mentioned in this issue.
Allow several weeks
for responses to reader
service card inquiries.
Asterisks indicate
vendors who prefer to be
contacted by phone.

Reader

Service

1 stAid Kit lstAid Software,
Inc.; 617/783-71 18,
800/843-3497.

701 101 Macros Plus for Excel

Individual Software,

Inc.; 415/595-8855,
800/331-3313.

702 4th Dimension Acius.Inc.;
408/252-4444,
800/538-8157.

703 Aldus Persuasion Aldus
Corp. ; 206/628-2320.

* ArchiCAD Graphisoft USA;
415/266-8720,
800/344-3468.

* Architrion Gimeorlnc.;
202/223-4373.

70< Backmatic Magic Software,
Inc.; 402/291-0670,
800/342-6243.

70S Bernoulli Box Iomega
Coni.; 801/778-1000,
800/456-5522.

70S CA-Cricket Presents Com¬
puter. Associates; 408/
432-1727,800/531-5236.
707 Cirrus 600 Magneto-Optical
Drive La Cie, Ltd.; 503/
684-0143,800/999-0143.
700 Collaborative Writer Re¬
search Design Associates,
Inc.; 516/754-5280,
800/654-8715.

70S ColorSpace FX. ColorSpace

Ili Mass Microsystems,

Reader

Service

Inc.; 408/522-1200,
800/522-7979.

711 Compilelt Heizer Software;
415/943-7667,
800/888-7667.

712 Cosmos 600 Racet Com¬
putes, Ltd.; 714/579-1725.

713 DataPak Mass Microsys¬
tems, Inc.; 408/522-1200,
800/522-7979.

714 Deluxe Recorder Electronic
Arts;415/571-7171,
800/245-4525.

715 Diaioger theResuIt Soft¬
ware, Inc.; 919/294-5034,
800/365-5034.

716 Direct Mail Preferred
Publishers, Inc.; 901/683-
3383,800/446-6393.

717 DiskFit SuperMacTech-
nology; 408/245-2202.

718 Double Helix OdestaCorp.;
312/498-5615.

719 E4020.E5020 Cabletron
Systems, Inc.;
603/332-9400.

721 The Electronic English Hand¬
book TechnologyTrain-
ing Associates, Inc.;
617/497-5030.

722 EndNote Niles & Associ¬
ates; 4 15/655-6666.

723 EtherLink/NB 3Com Corp.;
408/562-6400,
800/638-3266.

724 Etherlink/SE 3Com Corp.;
408/562-6400,
800/638-3266.

• EtherNext NetWorth;
214/869-1311.

Ether + Compatible
Systems Corp.; 303/444-
9532,800/356-0283.

725 EtherPort II Kinetics, a
Division of Novell, Inc.;
408/473-8261.

726 EtherPort IIL Kinetics, a
Division of Novell, Inc.;
408/473-8261.

727 EtherPort SE Kinetics, a

Reader

Service

Division of Novell, Inc.;
408/473-8261.

728 EtherPort SE/30 Kinetics, a
Division of Novell, Inc.;
408/473-8261.

729 EtherPort SEL Kinetics, a
Division of Novell, Inc.;
408/473-8261.

730 EtherTalk Interface Card
Apple Computer, Inc.;
408/996-1010.

731 Fastbackll Fifth Genera¬
tion Systems, Inc.; 504/
291-7221,800/225-2775.

732 FastNet III, FastNet SCSI,
FastNet SE Dove Com¬
puter Corp.; 919/763-
7918,800/622-7627.

735 FastNet SE/30 Dove Com¬
puter Corp. ; 919/763-
7918,800/622-7627.

736 Findswell Working Soft¬
ware, Inc.; 408/423-5696.

737 GatorCard E/ll, GatorCard E/30,
GatorCard E/SE Cayman Sys¬
tems, Inc.; 617/494-1999.

740 Genesis 6000 Macsetra
Technologies Interna¬
tional, Inc; 306/934-6044,
800/661-6000.

741 Grease Pencil Glenn-Marx
Associates; 2 13/471-2754.

742 hammerDisk600 FWB,Inc.;
415/474-8055.

743 HiPerformance Erasable Opti¬
cal Drive ProCom Technol¬
ogy, Inc.; 714/549-9449.

744 HyperHit SoftStream
International, Inc.; 609/
866-1187,800/262-6610.

745 HyperTape GCC Technolo¬
gies; 617/890-0880,
800/422-7777.

746 In-CAD Infinite Graphics;
612/721-6283.

747 Infinity Optical Peripheral

Reader

Service

Land, Inc.; 415/657-2211,
800/288-8754.

748 IPT1000 Information
Presentation Technolo¬
gies, Inc.; 818/347-7791,
800/233-9993.

749 JetStream Personal
Computer Peripherals
Corp.; 813/884-3092,
800/622-2888.

750 KidsMath Great Wave
Software; 408/438-1990.

751 King Frog Actreo Software;
612/546-3456.

752 Knowledge Finder with Core
Journals Medline Data¬
base Aries Systems Corp.;
508/475-7200.

753 Life & Death The Software
Toolworks; 818/885-9000.

754 LightDisk Summus Com¬
puter Systems; 713/492-
6611,800/255-9638.

755 Mac2000 Network
Resources Corp.;
408/263-8100.

756 MacCon ll/E Asante
Technologies, Inc.;
408/736-3360.

757 MacCon SE/E Asante
Technologies, Inc.;
408/736-3360.

758 MacCon SE30/E Asante
Technologies, Inc.;
408/736-3360.

759 MacDiscus Advanced
Graphic Applications,

Inc.; 2 12/337-4200,
800/347-2871.

* MacDrawll Claris Corp.;
408/727-8227.

760 Macintosh + Inspire Alpha-
tronix, Inc.; 9 19/544-
0001,800/229-8686.

761 MagicDrive 600 Optical Mac-
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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

263

It’s the MacEverything Show!

Get ready for a MacFabulous event — the world's largest
and most comprehensive Macintosh show arrives in San
Francisco April 11, 12 and 13! For three thrilling days at
MACWORLD Exposition, you will access all the latest in the
world that is Macintosh. New Products. New Services. New
Ideas. You’ll see everything that makes Macintosh exciting!

See over 400 Exhibiting Companies

With over 400 exhibiting companies covering nearly
300,000 square feet of door space, you know you’ll find the
right products for your needs. Whether your interest is in
business, networking, multimedia, databases, education,
research, word processing, accounting, CAD-CAM, forecast¬
ing, analysis, design, publishing, art. animation, music,
games or programming, MACWORLD Expo delivers what
you’re looking for. You’ll find more concentrated, practical,
hands-on information than you can get anywhere else.

Learn from the MacMaestros

The first two days of MACWORLD Expo begin with key¬
note presentations that are guaranteed to make your spirits
soar. The industry’s best will dazzle you with the newest
Macintosh developments and trends; you’ll get the latest
scoop straight from the Mac insiders.

And then you'll have to make some tough choices, because
MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco’s Conference Program is
bigger and better than ever! The hottest topics will be
covered in over 60 sessions presented in a concentrated,
two-day format. Eight different mini-conferences are sched¬
uled for Wednesday and Thursday (April 11th and 12th).

1. The Multimedia Mac (New!) - Sessions to bring you up
to date on the exciting integration of video, sound and
animation on the computer platform.

2. Designer Solutions (New!) - At last! Intensive
sessions to maximize the usefulness of Macintosh
in design applications — for architects, graphic
artists, engineers and more.

3. Software Review Sessions (New!) - Authoritative,
unbiased overviews of the best-selling Macintosh softwai
packages, presented by software review editors from the
leading Mac publications.

4. User Workshops - Introductory: for those just gettin:
started with the Mac, or for those who need a quick lesi
on the most popular Mac applications. Advanced: where
experienced users share their ideas and expertise and
reveal insider tricks.

5. The Mac in Business — No-nonsense pointers to help
solve the unique problems of business users, along with
discussions on the possible impact of developing trends
and technologies in the Mac marketplace.

6. Programmer/Developer Forums - The place for
veteran and novice techies to brainstorm and learn aboil
innovative advances and techniques.

7. Special Interest Group Meetings - Sessions to serve
the needs of users who are seeking to prosper and prof
from the Mac in an amazingly broad range of settings.
Includes: Education Workshops — A golden opportunity
for teachers and administrators to learn how colleagues
using the Mac. How-To’s for the Home Office/Small Bu<
ness - Resources and recommendations especially usefu
the Macintosh home office worker, along with tips on
growing your own business with a Mac. Other
sessions will highlight International Issues,

The Mac in Healthcare and The Mac in
the Law Office.

Register for MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco
by March 5 and save $15 on the full
Conference Program and Exhibit Package,
or $10 on Exhibits only admission.

This is your chance to preregister for MACWORLD Expo/
San Francisco, April 11-13, 1990, at Moscone Center,
Brooks Hall and Civic Auditorium. Please choose your
package and fill out this form completely. Incomplete
forms will be returned. Use one form per person.

(Make photocopies to register additional people.) Then
send the completed form(s) along with payment to:
MACWORLD Expo, P.O. Box 4010, Dedham, MA 02026.

Special Instructions for
Non-U. S. Attendees

If you’re pneregistering from outside the U.S. and would
prefer to have your badge sent to you instead of picking
it up at Moscone Center, be sure to check the appropriate
box on the registration form and add an additional $35 to
your preregistration cost. We will Federal Express your
badge to you. Please fill in the exact street address and
be sure to include your telephone number. Do not use a
Post Office Box.

Registration coupons must be returned by March 5; cou¬
pons received after March 5 will be returned. Registration
fees are non-refundable. For further information, call the
MACWORLD Expo Hotline at (617) 361-3941. U.S. atten¬
dees will be mailed their badges on or about March 20.
(Be sure to check box indicating where badge should be
sent.) All other badges will be held at the Preregistration
Counter at Moscone Center for pick up beginning
Tuesday, April 10.

*All Conference Sessions are subject to change without
notice. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis,
with no guaranteed seating or reservations. Please
complete the registration form on the reverse side
and send it, along with your check or money order to:
MACWORLD Expo, P.O. Box 4010, Dedham, MA 02026

MACWORLD Expo Registration Card

San Francisco April 11, 12 and 13

Please register me for;

□ Package One $65

Conference Sessions and Exhibits*
Preregister by March 5
($80 at the door)

□ Package Two $ 1 5

Admission to Exhibits only
Preregister by March 5
($25 at the door)

□ I am a Non-U.S. attendee
and would like my badge
shipped by Federal Express.
I have enclosed an
additional $35.00.

Please send my badge and further information to:

Check one: □ Home Address □ Company Address

Last Name

Mailing Address
City, State, Zip
Telephone

First Name

If mailing to company address:

Title

Company

□ Check enclosed (make payable to MACWORLD Exposition) Amount $

□ MasterCard □ Visa □ American Express Amount $ _

Account Number

Expiration Date

(Include all numbers)

Cardholder Signature _

(Signature necessary to be valid)

If cardholder is other than registrant, please print name below:

Last Name ' First Name

CASH ONLY AT THE DOOR. After March 5, you must register at the show.

Please check the appropriate boxes:

Your industry or profession

a. □ Manufacturer (non-computer)

b. □ Manufacturer (computer industry)

c. □ Distributor/dealer/retailer/service

d. □ Finance/insurance/real estate

e. □ Business services

f. □ Professional (law/medicine)

g. □ Health services

h. □ Communications/publishing

i. □ Education

j. □ Government

k. □ Consultant

l. □ Other (specify) _

Your title

m. □ CEO/president/vice president

n. □ Comptroller/treasurer/accountant

o. □ DP/MIS manager

p. □ Owner/partner

q. □ Engineer

r. □ Doctor/lawyer/dentist

s. □ Educator

t. □ Art direct or/writer/editor

u. □ Consultant

v. □ Marketing

w. □ Sales

x. □ Other (specify) _

Size of your organization

(number of employees national/international)

y. □ Under 50

z. □ 50-99
aa. □ 100-499
bb. □ 500-999
cc. □ 1,000-5,000
dd.G Over 5,000

Which personal computer(s) do you own/or use?
ee. □ Macintosh
ff. □ Macintosh Plus
gg. □ Macintosh SE
hh.Q Macintosh II
ii. □ Apple II Series
jj. □ IBM PC (or compatible)
kk. □ None

11. □ Other (specify) _

*A11 conference sessions are on a first-come, first-served basis
with no guaranteed seating. Please fill out this form completely
and send it, along with your check or money order to:
MACWORLD Expo, P.O. Box 4010, Dedham, MA 02026.

MAC

8. Late-Breaking/Popular Demand Topics - To keep the
i MACWORLD Expo conference program (and you!) up-to-
sthe-minute, we’ll top off the agenda with sessions reflecting
the latest market developments — and special requests.
Included will be the popular MACWORLD Expo User
Group (MUSE), where user group members from all over
the country exchange information, ideas and strategies, and
get gcx)d answers to tough questions.

Save Money on Airfare and Hotels

American Airlines is the official airline < >1
A*A MACWORLD Expo, and you can save up to
45% if you fly to San Francisco on American.
To take advantage of the MACWORLD Expo discount, just
call American at (800) 433-1790 and ask for Star File num
ber S-0640AL.You’ll automatically receive your discount.

Discover a “Treasury of Practical Tips”

Even after two confeience days packed with MacFacts,
there’s still more to learn! We’ve sifted through all the best
powerhouse ideas and pointers, and sorted them into a
series of all new two-hour sessions called the MACWORLD
Expo Treasury of Practical Tips. These hard-hitting, practical
how-to sessions cover the programs and products most
requested by MACWORLD Expo attendees, and is a one
day only event! The limited edition Treasuries will be
offered only on Friday, April 13-

Register now to save money and enjoy all the benefits of
attending MACWORLD Expo. You can save $15 on a full
registration, including all Conference Sessions and Exhibits,
by registering before March 5. ($65 in advance, $80 at the
door.) Or, you can save $10 if you register for Exhibits
Only. ($15 in advance, $25 at the door.)

In either case, preregistration saves you money and time.
When you register in advance, we’ll send you your admis¬
sion badge early so you’ll be able to walk right into
MACWORLD Expo! You’ll avoid long lines at the door.

To register for MACWORLD Expo, simply complete the
attached form and send it in with your payment (by check
or credit card.) Or, for more information, call the MAC¬
WORLD Expo Hotline at (617) 361-3941.

Your advanced registration must be received by March 5,
1990. Registrations received after March 5 will be returned.
On-site registration is cash only. Please note: All confer¬
ence sessions are subject to change without notice.

Admission is on a first-come, first-
served basis, with no
guaranteed
seating or
reservations.

Hotels in the San Francisco area are also offering MAC¬
WORLD Expo discounts. To receive the preferred rates,
simply call one of the hotels listed below and mention that
you are going to MACWORLD Expo. There are a limited
number of rooms available at preferred rates, so make your
plans early! Published rates are single and double rooms

respectively

and are

starting rates:

HOTEL

RATE

PHONE*

HOTEL

RATE

PHONE*

Fairmont Hotel

$1 25/$1 55

772-5000

Huntington Hotel

$145/5145

474-5400

Four Seasons

$1 55/$1 55

775-4700

on Nob Hill

Grand Hyatt

$1 49/$1 49

398-1234

Hyatt Regency

$135/$ 160

788-1234

Union Sq.

Le Meridien

$135/5155

974-6400

Hilton

$1 10/S120

771-1400

Marriott

$1 50/$1 70

896-1600

Holiday Inn

S89/S89

441-4000

Parc Fifty Five

$1 27/$1 27

392-8000

Golden Gateway

The Portman

$1 60/$1 80

771-8600

Holiday Inn

$1 1 7/$1 37

398-8900

Sir Francis Drake

$1 1 5/$1 25

392-7755

Union Square

The Westin

$1 1 5/$1 30

397-7000

Hotel Nikko

$1 35/$1 50

394-1111

St. Francis

The area code for San Francisco is (415).

Show Locations and Hours

MACWORLD Expo’s three San Francisco locations are
Moscone Center, Brooks Hall and Civic Auditorium.
MACWORLD Expo Express Buses conveniently connect you
with all three locations; just look for the “Expo Express”
and hop on!

The MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco show hours are:

Exhibits Wednesday, April 11 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 12 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Friday, April 13 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Conference Wednesday, April 11 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Program Thursday, April 12 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Friday, April 13 10 a.m. - noon

MACWORLD Expo is sponsored by MACWORLD, the Macintosh*1 Magazine, an IDG Communica
tions publication. MACWORLD Exposition is an independent trade show produced by IDG World
Expo Corp. and managed by Mitch Hall Associates and not affiliated with Apple Computer, Inc
MAC, MACINTOSH AND MACWORLD are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. IDG World Expo
is a company of International Data Group.

Expo Hotline

(617) 361-3941

❖

WHERE TO BUY

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Products USA; 5 12/343-
9560,800/622-3475.

712 Math Rabbit The Learning
Com pany ; 4 1 5/792-2 101,
800/852-2255.

753 MaxStream Archive Corp.;
714/966-5589,
800/237-4929.

• M.E.O. Patient JAM Tech¬
nologies; 415/442-0795.

754 Microtech ORS50 Micro-
tech International, Inc.;
203/468-6223,
800/626-4276.

7is Modern Artist Computer
Friends, Inc.; 503/626-
2291,800/547-3303.

7SC More II Symantec Corp.;
408/253-9600,
800/441-7234.

757 MyMailList MySoftware
Co.; 415/325-9372.

7ll NAE1000 Novell, Inc.;
801/379-5900.

755 NAE2000 Novell, Inc.;
801/379-5900.

771 Neotech Image Grabber Ad¬
vent Computer Products,
Inc.; 619/942-8456.

Rt«4*r

Scrvic*

771 Network DiskFit Super-
Mac Technology;
408/245-2202.

772 NIA310MacConnect Ratal
Interlan, Inc.; 508/263-
9929,800/526-8255.

773 Nodem Adaptec, Inc.;
408/945-8600.

* Norton Utilities for the Macin¬
tosh Peter Norton Com¬
puting, Inc.; 2 13/453-
2361,800/365-1010.

774 NuvoLink II Nuvotech,Inc.;
415/331-7815,
800/232-9922.

775 NuvoLink SC Nuvotech,
Inc.; 415/331-7815,
800/232-9922.

775 NuvoStarET Nuvotech,
Inc.;4l5/331-7815,
800/232-9922.

777 Opti-Cache Pinnacle Micro,
Inc.; 714/472-0100,
800/553-7070.

77t Optical Plus Relax

Technology; 415/471-
6112,800/848-1313.

775 OptiServer 600 Deltaic
Systems; 408/954-1055.

tiidir

Scrvic*

718 Origins, Origins Sold Delta-
soft, Inc.; 918/250-5594.

7*1 OSR-SM501 Computer
Upgrade Corp.;
714/630-3457.

712 PC Tools Deluxe for the Mac¬
intosh Central Point Soft¬
ware, Inc.; 503/690-8090.
7*3 Photon Paint Micro-

Illusions, Inc.; 818/360-
3715,800/522-2041.

7*4 PixelPaint, PixelPaint
Professional SuperMac
Technology;
408/245-2202.

7*s Plus Spinnaker Software,
Inc.; 617/494-1200.

* PowerPoint Microsoft
Corp.; 206/882-8080,
800/426-9400.

7*7 Preditor Evatac Software;
503/644-4606.

7tt Pro-Cite for the Macintosh

Personal Bibliographic

Softwarerlnc.;

313/996-1580.

7*9 The Puzzle Gallery: At the
Carnival Electronic Arts;
415/571-7171,
800/2454525.

79* Redux Microseeds Publish¬
ing, Inc.; 813/882-8635.

791 REO-650 Pinnacle Micro,
Inc.; 714/472-0100,
800/553-7070.

792 Retrospect Dantz
Development Corp. ;
415/849-0293.

793 RSSM600B Sumo Systems;
408/453-5744.

794 ScriptEdit Somak Soft¬
ware, Inc.; 619/942-2556,
800/842-5020.

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818/700-0510.

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800/888-7667.

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703/478-0181.

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Macworld Expo SF, 264-265

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Silicon Beach, 22

101

E-Machincs, 188

293

Safe ware, 98

105

Supcrmac Technology, 19

154

Ehman, Inc., C3-C4

379

Teleslide, 100

BUSINESS

379

Teleslide, 100

500

Ehman, Inc., C5

474

Absolute Solutions. 256

In-Focus, 116

MISCELLANEOUS

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Aldus. 108-109

PERSONAL BUSINESS/HOME

466

MegaGraphics, 59

Computer Friends, 270

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Checkmark Software, 246

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Intuit, 33

Mitsubishi, 210

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Kensington Microwarc, BC

Computer Associates, 90

178

Radius, 10-11

296

ScanCo, 217

152

Fox Software, 199

ENTERTAINMENT

157

Generic Software, 185

200

Postcraft International, 47

MODEMS

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Intuit, 33

384

Postcraft International, 47

Computer Friends, 270

Mail Order

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Microsoft, 1FC-1, 102-103

145

La Cie, 26-27

415

Microsoft Press, 28

NETWORKING

184

Prometheus, 208

Beverly Hills Computer, 272

416

Microsoft Press, 30

432

Alisa, 201

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Shiva, 13

CDA Computer Sales, 183

Personal Training Systems, 25

232

Dayna Communications, 260

Diskette Connection, 271

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SAS Institute, 203

150

Farallon, 14-15

HARD DISKS/STORAGE

368

Dr. Mac, 274-275

423

Serius, 104

Insignia Solutions, 42

403

American Micro Distributors, 237

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Hard Drives, 281

297

Shana Corporation, 267

304

Traveling Software, 41

Archive, 92

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MacConnection, 122-131

419

Softview, 255

The Wollongong Group, Inc., 197

Braemar Corp, 40

498

MacExpress, 273

210

SPSS, 110

217

Braemar Corp, 40

MacFriends, 93

302

Symmetry, 48

LANGUAGES/DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS

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Ehman, Inc., C3-C4

354

MacFriends, 259

492

Systat, 181

Maxem Corporation, 86

500

Ehman, Inc., C5

MacFriends, 54

206

Timeslips Corporation, 120

423

Serius, 104

250

Fifth Generation Systems, 255

109

MacFriends, 261

215

Symantec, 76

364

Fifth Generation Systems, 255

264

MacLand, 276-277

VERTICAL

125

Jasmine, 38-39

465

MacProducts, 278-279

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Checkmark Software, 246

UTILITIES

145

La Cie, 26-27

MacWarehouse, 66-75

Personal Training Systems, 25

357

Central Point Software, 89

465

MacProducts, 278-279

440

MacWarehouse, 244-245

370

ON Technology, 9

207

Mass Micro Systems, 34

MacZone, The, 228-235

DATA MANAGEMENT

382

Supermac Technology, 179

116

MicroNet, 175

Programs Plus, 218-221

170

Aperture Technologies, 55

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Symantec, 29

275

MicroNet , 206

355

Reasonable Solutions, 63

Blyth Software, 4

237

Symantec, 31

458

Microtech International, 240

442

Texas Mac Express, 271

297

Shana Corporation, 267

292

Tree Star, Inc., 8

424

Mirror Technologies, 80-81

147

STN International, 36

223

Personal Computer Peripherals

MISCELLANEOUS

Corporation, 204

WORD PROCESSING

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Aldus, 108-109

287

Pinnacle Micro, 65

272

Franklin Software, 8

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Checkmark Software, 246

149

Rodime, 194

425

Reference Software, 37

198

Portfolio Systems, 96

127

Storage Dimensions, 1 14

332

T/Maker, 5

502

Tactic Software, 84

Supermac Technology, 6-7

379

Teleslide, 100

321

Tecmar, 190

CAD/CAM

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Universal Mac Products, 222

472

Ashlar, 1 12

Engineered Software, 24

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VIDEO

157

Generic Software, 185

465

MacProducts, 278-279

177

Graphsoft, Inc., 46

COMPUTER SYSTEMS

108

Orange Micro, 52

Intergraph, 252

MacFriends, 93

223

Personal Computer Peripherals

354

MacFriends, 259

Corporation, 204

COMMUNICATION

MacFriends, 54

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Raster Ops, 49-51

281

DataViz, 1 18

109

MacFriends, 261

105

Supermac Technology, 19

287

Pinnacle Micro, 65

184

Prometheus, 208

PRINTERS

SECURITY DEVICES

304

Traveling Software, 41

107

Abaton, 262

239

Secure-lt, 100

131

Abaton, 262

EDUCATIONAL

460

Agfa-Compugraphic, 238-239

MISCELLANEOUS

Personal Training Systems, 25

271

Diconix, 20-21

403

American Micro Distributors, 237

147

STN International, 36

204

GCC Technologies, 97

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AT&T, 60

119

GCC Technologies, 99

171

Computer Accessories, 85

FONTS

422

GCC Technologies, 101

Computer Friends, 270

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Adobe, 44-45, 212-213

343

Hewlett Packard, 186-187

In-Focus, 116

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Image Club, 79, 249

145

La Cie, 26-27

125

Jasmine, 38-39

200

Postcraft International, 47

Mitsubishi, 210

426

Microtouch, 82-83

384

Postcraft International, 47

353

Qume, 208

449

Microtouch, 82-83

211

TypeXpress, 64

485

Next Computer, 56-57

304

Traveling Software, 41

GRAPHICS/DESKTOP PUBLISHING

BOARDS

118

Zericon, 217

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Adobe, 44-45, 212-213

403

American Micro Distributors, 237

267

Zericon, 217

460

Agfa-Compugraphic, 238-239

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Daystar Digital, 106

Aldus, lWrll/7

477

Daystar Digital, 106

472

Ashlar, 112

158

Microtek, 192

Accessories

Cricket, 91

196

National Semiconductor, 201

180

Deneba Software, 43

108

Orange Micro, 52

FLOPPY DISKS/HOLDERS

242

Digital Vision, 237

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Raster Ops, 49-51

402

3M, 227

Emerald City, 214

157

Generic Software, 185

FURNITURE

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Image Club, 79, 249

DIGITIZERS/SCANNERS

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Anthro Corp., 12

Intergraph, 252

107

Abaton, 262

296

ScanCo, 217

200

Postcraft International, 47

131

Abaton, 262

384

Postcraft International, 47

460

Agfa-Compugraphic, 238-239

SERVICES

353

Qumc, 208

230

Caere Corporation, 94-95

359

GE Information Services, 258

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Raster Ops, 49-51

122

Calcomp, 16

406

MacAcademy, 32

355

Reasonable Solutions, 63

158

Microtek, 192

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Macworld Expo Asia, 280

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, . 25.

DISKFIT . . . . .

. 59.

DISKTOOLSPLUS .

. 29.

DISKT0P . .

. . 32-

UPLINK MAC .

. 82.

UGHTSPEED C .

_ 139.

LIGHTSPEED PASCAL .

. 90.

MAC PRINT .

. . 75.

MAC SAFE .

. 85.

MACUNK PLUS .

. 135.

OMNIPAGE .

_ 499.

PCT00LS DELUXE MAC .

. 45.

PRINTWORKS USER .

_ 84

PROTOTYPER .

. 74.

PYRO . „ .

. 15.

QUICK KEYS .

. 59.

S.U.M .

. 65

SENTINEL .

. 153.

SMARTSCRAP 6 CUPPER .

. 45.

SUITCASE II . . .

. . 45.

SUPERCARD . . .

. 125.

SUPERGLUE . . .

. 59.

SUPERUSER SPOOL .

. 78.

SUPERSPOOL .

... . 55.

VIREX .

MONITORS &

SCANNERS

E-MACHINE BIG PICTURE. PLUS 8 SE

. .1,175

E-MACHINE T16 MONITOR .

. . 2.795.

E-MACHINE T19 MONITOR .

. .4.195.

E-MACHINE Z-21 IQ GRAYSCALE . . .

. 2.395.

RASTER0PS CLEARYUE.SE MONITOR

.1250

RASTER0PS C0LCRB0ARD 254 ....

.675.

SONY 1304 MONITOR . . .

659

ABAT0N 300-SS, 256 GREY, SCANNER

.1.339

ABAT0N 300S FLATBED SCANNER .

. 1.150.

MSF-300QS, MICROTEK SCANNER

1125.

MSF-300Z. COLOR /GRAY SCALE .

.1.393.

MSF-3CCZ. MAOI INTERFACE KIT .

339

MSF-40C3S. MICROTEK SCANNER

.2.493.

ELECTRONIC ARTS SPECIALS

Buy Mac Recorder and Studio 1 and get $50 off
Boy Stucfio 8 and Swivel 3-d and gel a FREE Stioo 1
Buy 4 EA games and get coe ree (to March 93)

EA New Releases

ADiDPo&ffRaanx .....
ItoGatey-Alfie Carnival ..

Pipeta .

Lde and Death .

1-800-2/22-2808

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right to refuse to sell to anyone

INTERNATIONAL TOLL-FREE ORDERING POLICIES: Minimum order $100 Us. Orders only please
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DAY SHIPPING

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NEW HORIZONS

Wordmaker .

ODESTA CORPORATION
Double Helix Version 3.0

GeoQuery .

Data Desk Professional..
PARACOMP

Swivel 3D .

Model Shop .

Milo .

PORTFOLIO SYSTEMS
Dynodex .

DREAMMAKER SOFTWARE

Cliptures Vol 1 or 2 .

MacGallery .

ELECTRONIC ARTS

Studio 8 .

Studio 1 .

EMERALD CITY SOFTWARE

SmartArt 1,2 or 3 .

A LASTING IMPRESSION

ResumExpert .

AATRIX

Payroll Plus .

Wxdftrfect

Payroll Plus . 165

ACIUS

4th Dimension . 465

ADOBE SYSTEMS

Adobe Illustrator '88 (incl. ATM) . 275

Adobe Type Manager . 55

StreamLine . 225

Fonts . Please Call

AEC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

AEC Info Manager . 409

FastTrack Schedule . 113

ALDUS

Pagemaker . 382

Freehand 2.0 . 325

Persuasion . 319

ALSOFT

DiskExpress II . 46

Master Juggler . 46

ASD SOFTWARE

Fileguard . 88

Flleguard Extended Ed . 120

Fileguard Ext. Ed. 10 Pack . 559

BLYTH SOFTWARE

Omnis 5 . 568

BRODERBUND

TypeStyler . 119

Drawing Table . 77

CAERE

Omnipage 2.0 . 539

CE SOFTWARE

Quickmail 5 User . 169

QuicKeys 1.2 . 64

In/Out 5 User . 126

DiskTop 4.0 . 64

CENTRON SOFTWARE

Casino Master . 38

Casino Master Color . 45

CHANG LABS

CAT. . 219

Rags to Riches 3-Pack . 269

DATA VIZ

MacLink Plus PC . 123

DIGITALK

Smalltalk/V Mac . 119

DISCOVERY SOFTWARE

Chroma 32 . 419

LaserTalk

FIFTH generation

FastBack II .

Suitcase .

FOX SOFTWARE

FoxBASE +/ Mac 2.0 .

FoxBASE +/Mac Multiuser.
GRAPHSOFT

Minicad+ 2.0 .

GENERIC

1st CAD Level 1 .

HAYES

Smartcom II .

Smartmodem 9600 V .

2400 with Smartcom II .

HJC SOFTWARE

Virex .

INFORMIX

WingZ .

INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT

MacPrint . .

WORDPERFECT $179

WordPerfect combines word processing
features like parallel columns, macros and mail
merge with network compatibility. Use
WordPerfect with DOS. VAX, DG and UNIX.

SYMMETRY

Acta Advantage .

HyperDA .

KeyPlan .

SYNERGY

Kaleidagraph .

VersaTerm-Pro .

SYSTAT

Fastat .

TIMEWORKS

Publish it! Mac .

Hyperworks Organizer .

TOPS for Mac (new version)

TOPS for DOS .

TOPS Flashcard .

TOPS Flashbox .

Teleconnectors .

Netprint .

T-MAKER

Write Now .

ClickArt .

VERSACAD

VersaCAD Drafter .

WILLIAM AND MACAIS

Sticky Business .

My Disk Labeler .

WOLFRAM

Mathematica for SE .

Mathematica for Mac II .

WORDPERFECT CORP.

WordPerfect 1 .03 .

OMNIS 5. NEW VERSION $368

Omnis 5 is the most powerful & flexible relational
& hierarchial database management program.
It fully utilizes graphical interface, enhanced
storage & color for both Mac & IBM.

^memory,

POWER UP

Address Book Plus .

Address Book Binder .

Calendar Creator .

Fast Forms .

PRO PLUS

Wall Street Investor .

Accounting .

QUARK

XPress .

Style .

SILICON BEACH SOFTWARE

Super Paint 2.0..... .

Digital Darkroom .

Supercard .

SOFTVIEW

MacInTax .

MacInTax CA, CT, NY, NJ, MA..

TaxView Pro Planner .

Tax View 1 065, 1 1 20, 1 1 20S .

SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL

SmartScrap & The Clipper .

SuperGlue II .

The Curator .

SOFTWARE VENTURES

Microphone II .

SPRINGBOARD

Publisher II .

Certificate Maker .

Hidden Agenda .

Sargon IV .

STUDIOTRONICS

Colorset .

SUPERMAC

Pixel Paint Professional .

Superspool .

Superlaser Spool .

SYMANTEC

Think C 4.0 .

LightSpeed P. .

S U M i i . . . . . . . . . . .

More II.jw, .

QUARKXPRESS $455

QuarkXPress is the top-of-the-line professional
publishing software that combines word
processing and graphics handling with
sophisticated page design, layout and color tools.

ICOM SIMULATIONS

Tmon .

On Cue .

INSIGNIA

Soft PC .

INTUIT

Quicken .

KIWI SOFTWARE

Envelope .

LANGUAGE SYSTEMS

Fortran with MPW .

Wild Things .

MACROMIND

Macromind Director.

Accelerator .

MATHSOFT

Mathcad Mac .

MICROSOFT

Word 4.0 .

Excel .

Power Point .

MICROSPOT

Maclnteriors .

MONOGRAM

Business Sense .

Dollars & Sense......

MACINTAX $63

Macintax Federal, the world renowned tax
program and Macintax for 8 states is now
available A new feature allows electronic filing
The advantage is that you can receive your
refund within three days!

ADDRESS BOOK PLUS $51

Manage your names, addresses, phone
numbers and vital contact information Address
Book Plus is geared for output and is
compatible with ail major personal organizers

SOFTWARE

AFTER SAIT
SUPPORT!

, GUARANTEE!

KENSINGTON

Turbo Mouse . 107

System Saver . 64

Mac II Stand & Cables . 62

Masterpiece Mac II . 101

KEYTRONICS

Keyboard, inc. Tempo II . 118

KINETICS

Ether Port II . 517

Fast Path 4 . 2084

MEGA GRAPHICS

19” Rival Mono SE/II . 1175

19” 256 Greyscale . 2298

19" Sony Color II, Ilex . 3999

19” Sony Color II, Ilex 24 bit . Call

16" Sony Color New . Call

MICROTEK

Flatbed MSF-300GS . 1475

Color Scanner MSF-300Z . 1 965

MOUSE SYSTEM

A+Mouse . 61

A+ADB Mouse . 79

NEC

MacSync . 548

Multisync 3D . 736

Intersect External CD Rom . 736

Clip Art 3D for CD Rom . 266

NEMONIX

68020 16Mhz SE Accelerator . 378

Co-Processor . 182

ORCHID TECHNOLOGY

MacSprint II . 239

MacFax/Modem 9600 Baud . 439

RASTEROPS

ColorBoard 264 .

ColorBoard 108+ .

ClearView/SE System 19”.
ClearView/ll System 19"....
ProColor 708+ System 19'
ProColor 724 System 19".

FrameGrabber 324 NC .

SFX Video Option NTSC...
SHARP

JX-450 Color Scanner .

JX-300 Color Scanner .

SHODAN

Hummingbird 33MHz Accel
Hummingbird 36MHz Accel
Hummingbird 40MHz Accel
Leprechaun .

TOPS NETWORK BUNDLE $189

Tops Network Bundle allows you to quickly and easily
share files, E-Mail and pnnters between Mac. DOS
and Sun. The new version indudes MacLmk Plus
Translators, 20 node E-Mail and Tops spool.

• Visa, Mastercard & AMEX accepted.

• Credit card is not charged until order is
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• California residents add 6.75% sales tax

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Shipping

• $3. UPS Standard Air/Blue. Hardware
over 1 0 lbs will be shipped ground

• Same day shipping on orders placed by
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Returns

• Defective software will be replaced imme¬
diately by the same item. Call (818) 501 -0861
for R.A. number before return.

Money Back Guarantee

• Most products have a 30-day money back
guarantee. Please inquire when you order.

CORDLESS MOUSE $92

This amazing creature needs no tail as it
communicates at the speed of light on an
invisible infrared beam. Suddenly, the mouse is
smoother, faster and more accurate.

SIMMS

1 Meg. Simms 100, 80,70 ns . Call

SHIVA

NetSerial

NetBridge . .

TeleBridge .

Netmodem v2400 .

SUPRA

2400 Baud External Modem
SYSTEMGATE

Floppy Drive 800K .

Teac tape Drive 155Mb .

TARGUS

Mac SE Ext. Keyboard Case

Imagewriter II Carry Case .

THE COMPLETE SCANNERS

Half-Page Scanner/400 .

Complete Page Scanner .

THUNDERWARE

ThunderScan 5.0 .

Lightning Scan .

NEMONIX PERFORMANCE $378

Run your SE 4 times faster with the Nemonix
accelerator and use the Apple 15" portrait
monitor! Single board solution. LIFETIME
WARRANTY.

PCPC

Shadowgraph...

PLI (PERIPHERAL

Infinity 40 .

TurboFloppy 1 .4
Optical Drive 635 Mb.
Turbo 50 Hard Drive..
Turbo 200 Hard Drive
POLOROID

Data Recover- rv~u..

LAND)

Data Recovery Disks. ..

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS

Cordless Mouse .

QUME

Crystal Print Publisher..
ScripTen .

PRACTICAL PERIPHERA

AT ONCE $282

Power, flexibility and simplicity are built into one
exciting acounting package At Once is
designed for output with excellent built in
^ reports or customize your own _

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DATADESK MAC-101 $136

Increase your speed with the Mac-101 Keyboard,
This award winning keyboard includes Master-
Strokes enhancement software Assign any
amount of keystrokes to one function key

Circle 368 on reader service card

POLICIES

America’s Largest Macintosh Hardware Source

WARNING: Beware of money-back offers on hardware! MacLand sells only NEW, NEVER USED
merchandise. We will not send you re-packaged, slightly-used hard disks.

Externals

Retail

Sale

Price

20 Megabyte

Cache Systems 20 40ms .

C7QC
vjj f C-Z) .

$429.

CMS Enhancements 20 32ms . . .

CTOC
$ f £-J.

$429.

Seagate 20 40ms .

C 7QC,

$ f C-Z) .

$399.

30 Megabyte

Cache Systems 30 28ms .

C 700

vp T vA7.

$489.

CMS Enhancements 30 32ms . . .

C7QQ

$ f JJ .

$489.

POWERDrive 30 40ms .

ergo

3;U oJ .

$399.

Seagate 31 40ms .

C7in
w > *ro.

$449.

$549

$589

$449

Quantum Hard Disk Drives

Industry leading Quantum quality, dependa¬
bility and fast access speeds at affordable
prices. Backed by our Two Year Warranty, all
Quantum drives come complete with cables
and software.

40 Megabyte

Cache Systems 45 28ms . $699:

CMS Enhancements 45 32ms . . . $935.
POWERDrive 45 40ms . $799:

Quantum 40 19ms

(2 Year Warranty!) . $999.

Seagate 46 40ms . $699:

60 Megabyte

Cache Systems 60 28ms . $999:

CMS Enhancements 60 40ms . . $1,095.

POWERDrive 60 28ms . $699:

Seagate 62 28ms . $999:

80 Megabyte

Cachb Systems 80 28ms . $1,199.

CMS Enhancement 81 28ms . . . $1,999.
POWERDrive 80 28ms . $4-, 699.

Quantum 80 79ms

(2 Year Warranty!) . $1 ,399. $789.

Seagate 81 28ms . $7-/499 $599.

100-200 Megabyte

Cache Systems 150 16ms . $9,499 $1 ,299.

Cache Systems 150/150

Tape 76ms . $6999- $2,159.

CMS Enhancements 170 78ms . $3,495. $1,549.

Imprimis-MacWren 170 16ms. . . $9,599 $1,499.

Quantum 105 79ms

(2 War Warranty!) . $1 ,999. $849.

Quantum 120 75ms

(2 Yaar Warranty!) $9,499. $1,099.

Prices good through March 1990

Quantum 170 15ms
(2 Year Warranty!) . $9,999.

POWERDrive 150 16ms . $4,999.

POWERDrive 200 19ms . $9,399.

Toshiba 10525ms . $1,799.

$1,249.

$1,096.

$1,244.

$799.

300-600 Megabyte

CMS Enhancements PD 300

7 6ms .

$4,295.

$2,395.

CMS Enhancements PD 600

16ms .

$5,845.

$3,499.

Imprimis - MacWren 300 16ms . .

$4,295.

$2,099.

Imprimis - MacWren Runner 320

10. 7ms . .

$4,895.

$2,649.

Imprimis - MacWren 600 16ms . .

$5,699.

$2,799.

POWERDrive 320 16ms .

$3,499.

$1 ,796.

POWERDrive 600 16ms .

$4,999.

$2,796.

SE, SE30 & Ilex, llci Internals

20 Megabyte

30 Megabyte

Seagate 31 40ms

40 Megabyte

trepo

$299.

{Tf? AC\
CpUHiT.

$375.

iTc

$399.

< to a r\
d>0*TC7.

$349.

<TQ 1 C

1 O.

$449.

CMS Hard Disk Drives

Hard disk drives, tape back ups, removable
hard drives, high capacity drives, CMS has
them all and we carry their full line.

Mac II & IIX Internals

20 Megabyte

Seagate 20 40ms . $599. $299.

30 Megabyte

Seagate 31 40ms . $649. $349.

40 Megabyte

Cache Systems 45 28ms . $599. $449.

CMS Enhancements Pro 45
32ms . $569- $469.

Quantum 40 19ms „„„

(2 Year Warranty!) . $699. $449.

Seagate 46 40ms . $799: $399.

60 Megabyte

Cache Systems 60 28ms . $639. $499.

CMS Enhancements Pro 60 40ms $649. $579.

Seagate 62 28ms . $649. $475.

80 Megabyte

Cache Systems 80 28ms . $799: $575.

CMS Enhancements Pro 80 28ms $749. $669.

Quantum 80 79ms

(2 Year Warranty!) . $1,299. $679.

Seagate 81 28ms . $749. $549.

100-170 Megabyte

Cache Systems 150 76ms . $1,429 $1 ,199.

CMS Enhancements P1 170
16ms . $4,699 $1,499.

CMS Enhancements Pro 45 32ms

cTfior
IfOtJ .

$469.

Quantum 105 19ms

Quantum 40 79ms

(2 Year Warranty!) .

. $1,899

$749.

(2 Year Warranty!) .

vJlOJo.

$449.

Quantum 120 15ms

Seagate 46 40ms .

tr 7Qn

V f •JYJ •

$399.

(2 War Warranty!) .

$2,399

$999.

Quantum 170 75ms

60 Megabyte

(2 War Warranty!) .

$2,699

$1,149.

Seagate 62 28ms .

ffAAA

4* JoJ.

$539.

Toshiba 105 25ms .

$1,499.

$699.

80 Megabyte

300-600 Megabyte

Quantum 80 19ms

CMS Enhancements PI 300

(2 War Warranty!) . $4,299.

$679.

16ms .

. . $4,395

$2,195.

100-170 Megabyte

Quantum 105 19ms . „

(2 Year Warranty!) . $ 4 ,899.

Quantum 120 15ms _

(2 Year Warranty!) . $2,399.

Quantum 170 75ms
(2 Year Warranty!) . $2,699.

$749.

$999.

$1,149.

Imprimis - MacWren 300 16ms . .
Imprimis - MacWren Runner 320

10.7ms .

Imprimis - MacWren 600 16ms . .
CMS Enhancements PI 600

$4,395. $1,999.

It A CAC

$5,995.

$2,499.

$2,699.

16ms . $5,995 $3,499.

Visa, MasterCard, and American Express accepted NO
surcharge. Your Credit Card will not be charged until your order is
shipped. We accept COD orders, additional $5.00 charge. A Z
residents add 6.5%. All shipments made by Federal Express

Standard Air which is 1 to 2 day service. COD's Shipped by UPS
2 day air. Call for shipping costs. Products purchased in error
are subject to a 20% restocking fee. All prices subject to change
without notice. All products subject to availability.

Reasons You Should Buy From MacLand...

Price —

Because of our
multi-million dollar
buying power, we
purchase large
volumes of quality
hardware at low
prices and pass
the savings on to
our customers.

Delivery —

We offer Same Day
Shipping on all in stock
items if we receive your
order by 3 pm Mountain
Standard Time. ALL
credit card orders are
shipped by FEDERAL
EXPRESS STANDARD
AIR service which
means you get your
merchandise fast!

Technical Support —

MacLand has the best
technical support, period. We
provide you with technical
support BEFORE AND
AFTER your purchase. Best
of all, to assure you the high
est quality, our trained techni¬
cians test ALL hard disk
drives for quality and viruses
before we ship them to you.

Ricoh Laser 6000/PS

The 6000 PS provides all of the power and
performance that you’ll ever need to get the
job done. This Adobe Postscript Laser Printer
can do letter, legal, envelopes, transparen¬
cies, and European paper sizes Backed with
a solid One Year Warranty. An unbelievable
price of $2,495. this month!

Removables/Tape Back-Ups

Reg. Sale
Price Price

44 Megabyte Removables

CMS Enhancements 44 25ms . . $4,495. $849.

Peripheral Land 44 25ms . $1,395. $999.

POWERDrive 44 25ms . $1,395-. $749.

40-150 Megabyte Tape Back-Ups

Cache 150 Tape .

$1,399.

$799.

CMS Enhancements 60 .

(LQQC

$649.

CMS Enhancements 150 .

IN A AO

$849.

Irwin 40 Meg Tape .

$1,395.

$949.

Irwin 80 Meg Tape .

$-4:695:

$1,149.

SyQuest Removable Cartridges

(Will fit Any 44 Removable Drive)

tr -t r\c
$ ' uu.

$94.

Erasable Optical

Peripheral Land 635 Optical
45ms . $5^99; $3,995.

formatted for hassle-free setup Each drive is
complete with cabling and Qntrack's ' Disk
Manner Mac' Software and a comprehen¬
sive reference manual. Just POWER UP

and go!

Printers

Hewlett Packard

DeskWriter .

$1,299.

$849.

Ricoh

Ricoh PostScript Laser Printer . .

$3,495.

$2,495.

Qume

Crystal Print Publisher .

$4,495.

$2,849.

ScripTEN Postscript

Laser Printer .

$4,495.

$2,699.

Accelerator Boards

MacSprint II Cache Board .

CROP

vbuX

$219.

MaraThon 020 MSE 1 .

$412.

MaraThon 020 MSE 2 (1 Meg) . .

$1,199.

$707.

MaraThon 020 MSE 3 (Math Chip) $999-

$589.

MaraThon 020 MSE 4

(1 Meg/Math Chip) .

$1 ,499.

$884.

MaraThon 030 Accelerator . . . .

$1,599.

$944.

radits

Radius 16 for MacPIus or Mac SE

Call.

Radius 25 for Mac SE .

Call.

Siclone Si3033 33Mhz for Mac II,

Hx, Ilex .

$3,995.

$2,999.

Siclone Si3033 33Mhz with 68882

for Mac II, llx, Ilex .

$4,995.

$3,799.

Memory Upgrades

MacSnap524 .

trq 1 Q
• vjyj I u.

$189.

MacSnap524E .

croon

4/c.uu -

$179.

MacSnap524S .

troop

• .

$235.

MacSnap 548 .

trzroo
• ij/uc/u.

$424.

MacSnap548E .

CCQO

$413.

MacSnap 548S .

tr 7QQ

. f ■

$472.

One Meg SIMMS

Call.

Mac Portable Memory Now Available.

Scanners

Hewlett Packard ScanJet

W/Interface .

$2,190

$1,499.

Microtek MS II Sheet Feed . .

. . $1,495.

$1,089.

Microtek MSF 300GS .

. . $2,195.

$1,479.

Microtek MSF 400GS .

$3,995

$2,959.

Microtek MSF 300Z - Color

W Interface .

$2,695

$1,975.

SIMMS

MacLand has memory in stock1 Call us for our
current prices Remember, if you bought your
memory from someone else, you probably
paid too much!

Monitors

Magnavox 14” Color Display . .

CCQC

$499.

Qume

Qume 14" Color Monitor .

tre a r\

$499.

Qume Portrait Monitor SE,

II, Ilex .

$>.149

$799.

radus

Full Page Display .

Call.

Two Page Display .

Call.

Two Page Grayscale .

Call.

Two Page Color .

Call.

RasterOps

RasterOpsClearVueMacll. . .

$1,995

$1,299.

RasterOps 19” ClearView SE . .

$1,995

$1,399.

RasterOps 16" 108 +

Color System .

$4,190

$2,949.

RasterOps 19" 108 +

Color System .

$5,690

$3,799.

RasterOps 16” 108+ SE30

Color System .

$4,690

$2,999.

RasterOps 19" 108 + SE30

Color System .

$5,790

$3,799.

RasterOps 16" 224

Color System .

$6,990

$4,849.

RasterOps 19" 224

Color System .

$8,190

$5,699.

RasterOps 264 Color Board

CAAC

wUJU.

$699.

RasterOps FrameGrabber . . .

$1,995.

$1,299.

Samsung 15" Full Page Monitor

and Card .

f AAA

$599.

Fax Modems

Abaton Fax Modem 4800 Baud
Abaton Fax Modem 9600 Baud
Orchid Fax Modem 9600 Baud

trope
, . VV-JU

CCAC

tropp

$259.

$399.

$439.

External Floppy Drives

Kennect Technology

Rapport .

Drive 2.4 .

• • J<J .

f 1A£

. . JJ

$215.

$359.

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FOR MACINTOSH PLUS, SE & II

Connects on keyboard or ADB
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Does not affect keyboard or mouse
Industrial quality, heavy-duty units
Also available
SmartCard encoder/reader
Magnetic encoder
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4047 Transport Street
Palo Alto, CA 94303
415-856-6833

Telex: (Graphnet) 371 9097
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Mac SE/30 80/4mb . $4395

Mac Ilex 40/2mb . $3795

Mac Ilex 80/4mb . $4695

Mac Ilci 40/2mb . $4995

Mac Ilci 80/4mb . $5895

Apple color monitor . $725

Apple 8 bit video card.. $480

Apple keyboard . $ 1 00

Apple ext keyboard . $ 175

Imagewriter II . $450

LaserWriter NT . $3545

LaserWriter NTX . $4795

H.P. Deskwriter . $845

All items new. 90 day warranty
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Mac SE . 1545

Mac SE Dual Floppy . 1595

Mac SE W/20MB Int . 1995

Mac SE W/30MB Int . 2095

Mac SE w/40MB Int . 2195

Imagewriter I . 295

Imagewriter II . 375

Laser Writer . CALL

Laser Writer Plus . CALL

Custom Configuration Available.
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Mac II cx color system $5,449.00

(or lease $1 98/mo., 36 mos.)

Mac II cx w / Superdrive
4 meg RAM expansion
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40 mb Quantum (19 ms)
Extended keyboard

Call now and let us fax you our com¬
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uration guide. Leasing available to
qualified business. All prices subject
to change.

Mac Portable 4,395.00

(or lease $1 62/mo., 36 mos.)

Mac Portable w/40 meg $4,895.00

(or lease $181 /mo., 36 mos.)

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anywhere in the us* eg 1 1 Free 800 727-3685

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from catalog parts & save $ $ $ over
new or used systems. Save $$$ on
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gain experience, break no laws. Read
“Build Your Own Macintosh” & learn
secrets. Illustrations/photos show how.
Makes a great gift. $24.95 postpd.
Visa/MC, check.

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4420 SE Mark Kelly Ct.

P.O. Box 68708
Portland, OR 97268

Extraterrestrial Prices

Beat all prices unless temporarily sold
out! Call for updated prices. COD
Mac Plus $1100

SE2 $1929

SE2/32mb, SE/30-4/80mb $low
Ilex $3319

Ilex 2/4 5mb $3729

Ilex 4/1 05mb $4625

LaserwriterllNT $3438

IINtx $4889 w/cable toner
MacPlus 20mb $395, More_

Jupiter Computers
6224 Knox Ave.

Fontana. CA 92336
714/829-2953

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Let Us Help You Configure Your Ideal Mac System!

Career Starter System

Macintosh SE
1MB RAM. 1.44FDHD
Apple 20MB Hard Disk
Std. Keyboard & Mouse
Imagewriter II & Cable
Microsoft Works

Retail Mac* In ‘Stock

$4,518 Only $3,216

\ Price ,

Executive System

Macintosh SE/30
2MB RAM, 1 44 FDHD
Apple 40MB Hard Disk
Ext. Keyboard & Mouse
H.P. Deskwriter & Cable
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel

Retail Mac • In ‘Stock

$7,712 Only $5,153

Macintosh Computers

Mac Plus

$1295

SE Dual 1.44

$2069

SE 20MB

$2495

SE/30. 40MB

$3499

SE/30. 80MB

$4725

II CX, 40MB

$3869

II CX, 80MB

$5089

II Ci, 40MB

$5229

II Ci, 80MB

$6499 - - J

24-Bit Color System !

II CX. 8MB ,80MB HD
Ext. Keyboard & Mouse
Apple 13“ Color Monitor
RasterOps 24-bit Card
Microtek Color Scanner
Photomac, SuperPaint
Digital Darkroom

Retail Mac ‘In ‘Stock
$13,986 Only $9,183

Rodime Hard Drives!

45M to 21 5M Cobras®!

Internal or External!

18ms access. 16K buffer.
1-Yr. Warranty. Free Fastback!

Scanners

Apple Scanner $1289
Microtek Color! $1995
(includes software bundle)

Microsoft Specials!

Works:$169 Word:$219 Excel:$229

Memory Upgrades

2-Yr. Warranty

1M, 100ns $109
1M, 80ns $129
256K, 100ns $35
256K, 80ns $36.50
LaserWriter II NTX1M Kit $249
LaserWriter II NTX 4M Kit $749

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with 1.44 SuperDrive
Retail Our Price
$5799 $4349

with 40M HD
Retail Our Price
$6499 $4875

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Imagewriter,
'LaserWriter. "Works',
•Word'. & -Excel-;
‘Fastback*; 'Cobra*;
‘Deskwriter-; ‘Clearvue*;
■Pagemaker & ‘Freehand';
•PhotoMac'. 'Superpamr; &
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or trademarks of Apple Computer.
Fifth Generation Systems. Microsoft Dorp.,
Rodime Systems. Hewtitt-Packard. RasterOps,
Aldus. Avalon, and Silicon Beach, respectively

Monitors

13" Color $71 9. 8-bit Card $469
Portrait $789, Port. Card $429
2-Pg. Mono $1549, Card $429
2-Pg. Color $3250, Card $1395

Printers

Imagewriter II $437
LaserWriter II NT $3539
LaserWriter II NTX $5039

TERM8: Personal or business checks!
Leasing available tor qualified businesses!
COD-cashier s check accepted at additional
charge. Shipments by UPS or FedEx F.O.Bi
El Segundo. CA residents add sales taxi
Prices subject to change without noticej

WARRANTY: Same as Apple (although
we are not an authorized Apple dealer)!
We will repair or replace at our expense]

Call Toll-Free: 800-633-1538 • Mon-Sat • 7-5 Pacific Time.

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Mac Parts-in Stock!

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Systems

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We Buy, Sell, Trade & Upgrade!

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DATA (213)470-9555
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We BUY Mac's

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LaserWtr.SC/NT/NTX

209573549.

Qume Laser Printer

3295.

Mac Plus LMb - IDr.

1295.

Mac SE 1Mb 2Dr.

1969.

Mac SE 30 1Mb IDr.

3095.

MacII 1Mb IDr.

3269.

MacII X 1Mb IDr.

3569.

MacII CX 1Mb IDr.

3469.

Memory Upgrade

149.

Image W'riter II/LQ

4507995.

MonitorMono/Color

3257725.

j All hard Disk Canfigu rations Available

COD & Next Day Devilvery Available
No Tax Outside California

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The Macintosh ® for

Industry

For those off the desktop
applications, there's RackMac™.

An industrial grade Macintosh IIx,
also available with matching
industrial touch display and rack¬
mounted keyboard /mouse drawer.

For vehicular, medical, laboratory,
automated test, process control,
operator entry application.

GreenSpring Computers

1204 O'Brien Drive Menlo Park, CA
94025 Tel 415-327-1200

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MAC Systems

Mac SE 2D $1949 • SE ID 20 mg.
$2349 * SE/30 1 Dr. $2999 • SE/30 4
MB 80MB $4199 • Mac IIx All models
- Call • Mac Ilex - Call • Mac II Cl -
Call • Mac II 13" Monitors $699 * Mac
Sync monitor $549 * Mac Portable -
Call • Image II $415 * LaserWriter SC
$1919 • LaserWriter NT $3388 •
LaserWriter NT $3388 • LaserWriter
NJX • $4699 * HP Scanjet plus & Mac
Interface $1399
ICC, 818/894-1 100,

FAX 818/891-3285

Data Acquisition

Data Acquisition & Analysis

Complete hardware & software
solutions for the scientist & engineer.
Acquisition hardware & software,
Analysis software, Signal conditioning
modules, & Language interfaces. A
friendly, knowledgeable technical staff
can guide you from start to finish with
proven solutions in Industrial,
Scientific, Engineering & Laboratory
environments. Call or write for a
catalog & price list
BIOPAC Systems,

5960 Mandarin Dr. #D5
Goleta, CA 93117
805/967-6615

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Emmulators

][Mac

An Apple //e computer
...all in software!

Run Apple II software on
your Macintosh.

Convert Apple II files to
Macintosh files.

$149.95 Add $3 for PAH

COMPUTERrapplications, Inc.

12813 Lindlev Drive Raleigh, NC 27614

(919) 846-1411

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Hard Drives

CONFUSED ABOUT
HARD DRIVES?

We carry them all.

Conner
Cutting Edge
Fujitsu
HardPac
Imprimis
Mass
MiniScribe
Mirror
Quantum
Relax
Rodime
Seagate

Storage Dimensions
Western Digital

The Information Farm
1-800-562-5842

Hard Disk Specialists

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Memory Upgrade

SIMM (Memory Modules)

Diamond-Pac™, Top Quality American
made memory modules offer easy and
economical expansion of Mac Plus, SE,
II. DRAM by 1,2,4, or 8 megabytes.
MC/Visa/Amex. See display ad this
issue!

AMDI

American Micro Distributors Inc.
16897 -D Algonquin
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
714/840-5560
Fax: 714/846-0570

MEMORY UPGRADE

Buy 4 Megabytes
Get FullWrite Professional
FREE

Technology Works and Ashton-Tate have a
special 1990 offer. Buy 4 megabytes of
memory and get FullWrite Professional
FREE. As always, offer includes
Technology Works great low price, lifetime
warranty and installation kit with every
purchase. Call for details:

(800) 622-2210

PO FAX#:(5 12) 794-8520
Same day shipping

Technology works

4030 Broker Lane West
Suite 350

Austin. Texas 78759

FullWrite offervalid through 3/31/90— or whle supplies last.

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Apple Memory
Upgrades

Mac II Mac 11+ Mac SE Mac Ilex Mac SE30 Mac llci

1MB, 2MB, 4MB, 8MB
Upgrade kits for all Apple Computers,
and Laser Writer Printers.

^ ^ Kelly Micro Systems; Inc

Lifetime Warranty (800)350*3900

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Below is a list of companies who have
advertised SIMMs in past issues of

MacWorld Magazine

January 1988

PSI

CDC

DMS

August 1988

PSI

Computer Care
SIMM City
Palo Alto RAM

June 1989

PSI

AMDI

CDC

Computer Care
DMS

Newer Technology

PSI, a leading manufacturer of Macintosh peripherals since 1 987, is always on the
cutting edge of technology. We were the first with our 4 meg SIMMs, the first with a
RAM upgrade for the Mac Portable, and the first with our Fax/Data modem for the
Portable. Other companies may come and go, but PSI is always there, always the
innovator, always the leader.

1 meg SIMMs, 4 meg MIMMs, NTX SIMMs, Portable RAM, Fax/Modem

800-622- 1 722 408-559-8544

PSI 2005 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 220, San Jose, CA 951 25

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Mac Rescue
for the Classic Mac

Some 'experts' are telling us to trash out the
128K and 512K Macs. Don't do it! Classic Macs
are far from moribund. Computer Care developed
Mac Rescue, a daughter board that snaps on the
enhanced Classic Mac motherboard. No need to
fold, spindle or mutilate. Installs in minutes to get
Mac Plus functionality.

Mac Rescue has 6 SIMM slots so you can
upgrade the Classics to 1 meg, 2 megs, 2.5
megs or 4 megs of RAM.

It also has a SCSI port to breathe even more life
into your faithful servant.

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Limited time Offer: Well buy back your old
fashioned expansion boards when you order
Mac Rescue, call for exact price quote.

Ford Centre, Suite 1180, 420 North Fifth St.

Minneapolis, MN 55401

(612) 371-0061 (800) 950-CARE (2273)

Computer

Dealer inquiries welcome.
Visa/MC accepted.

FREE

• Need memory for MAC?

• Want to pay the lowest possible price?

• Want superior service and FREE
advice?

• Wholesale source!

• Shipping worldwide!

• Inti FAX: 402/691-8548 (24 hrs„ 7
days)

• Int’l Direct: 402/691-8248 (24hrs„

7 days)

• Free Call! Free Info!

McDonald & Associates
1-800/338-1531 or
1-800242-5751

US. 24 hrs/day

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80 & 70 ns Speed

Low Profile, Surface Mount
High Quality 4-Layer Board
Lifetime Warranty
Visa, MC, No Surcharge
Same Day Shipping

iJMB & 4MB SIMMs for all models:

$ Lowest

Parity SIMMs available LaserWriter II NTX SIMMs in stock

SOUTH COAST ELECTRONICS

10920 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1 100
Los Angeles. CA 90024
213 208 3260 Tax 213- 208 3282

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In Canada Contact: Tallgrass Technologies, Canada, Inc.
1775 Meyerside Drive *1 • Mississauga, Ontario L5T 1K2
(4161 67.7-3244 • FAX (416) 673-3926

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Emerald Empire

Expand your Macintosh 1 to 32 megs
with our Mega Mac Memory Pak
Lazerwriter & IBM Upgrades Also Available
256K- 1 meg - 4 meg 80 &100ns
Educational & Government P.O.s Welcome

Lifetime Guarantee

Phone 714/272-4493
Fax 714/272-6559

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DEPEND ON
OUR SIMMs.

DEPEND ON
OUR UNDERPRICES.

NEW ENGLAND
CIRCUIT SALES, INC.

• Our SIMM prices absolutely
can't be beat,

we buy in quantity, and pass the
savings on to you.

• Lifetime overnight replace¬
ment warrantee,

we'll replace any
NECS SIMM for any
reason within 24
hours of your phone call.

• Every order shipped directly
from stock— no backorders.

With over ten years of industry experi¬
ence, NECS is one of the most

advanced and dependable
semiconductor distributors
in the world. Building from
this technical expertise,
our Memory Division now
offers SIMMs at unbelievable
prices for all your MAC expan¬
sion needs. Let us prove that
our prices— and quality— can't be
beat. Call now for immediate
cross-referencing and delivery.

Ask for our Memory
Division at 1 -800-922-NECS.

292 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA 01915

Telephone: 508-927-8250 Telex: 882-685-NECS UD. Telefax: 508-922-1341

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Upgrade w/Accu-Simms

Upgrade your Mac Plus, SE or Mac II
with our low profile one MEG SIMM
modules. We assemble, test, and have
strict quality control, and can give a
lifetime warranty. $99 per meg. (Qty.
discounts.) Full instructions come with
order. (All SIMMS are 100NS or faster.)
Prices may be lower by the time this
ad comes out. Call for quote & info:
1-800/662-SIMM.

Data Memory Systems Co.

15 Union Street
Laurence, MA 01840
Tel: 508/683-2325
Fax : 508/975-5232

UPGRADES!

512Ke - Plus $295
512K- Plus $625
128K - Plus $695

We do new and used
equipment/ parts!

RAM • Guaranteed Lowest

Peripheral Outlet

314 S. Bdwy • Ada, OK 74820

(800) 332-6581

Vis* A MC okay (add 3%)

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Announcing the SIMMER
Adds SIMM sockets and SCSI
port to your 1 28/5 1 2 Macintosh

$199 (OMeg)

1M S249.2M $389,2. 5M S409.4M $579
Dealers Wanted!

1 Meg SIMMS $79 w/Tradc

Low profile SOJ 80 Nsec
Lifetime Guar. Immed. Delivery

Digi-Graphics

764 E Village Way
ES Kaysvillc, Ut 84037 G"?

REMOVABLK HARD DISK STORAGE

FOR THE MACINTOSH

HARD DISK CARTRIDGE SYSTEMS

• Random

• U nli mi ad Capacities

• 20MB to 50MB Capacities Available

• Proven Winchcitcr Technology

• Maximum Dae a Security

• Image Back-up

• 100% Media Interchangeability

• 24 Month Warranty

Model 181 ESRemovable HirdDbk Syttrm $1345.00
See your locoal Macintosh dealer or call 1-805-694-C733

DMA Technologies, Inc.

601 Pine Avc., Goleta, CA 93117

Call 805-964-0733 for Information
Fax Inquiries: 805-964-0734

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Miscellaneous

FREE 2nd-Day Air!!*

Hewlett-Packard 1MB SIMM's

Deskwriter 80ns Surface Ml.

. Lifetime Warranty

$844 $86 CurTemat

We carry thousands of products. “Continental U.S. f>r‘nt‘nS

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Service On a Silver Platter...

1-800-942-6227

Broadway Plaza • Altus, OK 73521

Call for FREE Catalog & Specials

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Peripherals

9-Track Tape
Subsystem For
the Macintosh™

Exchange data files between your
Macintosh and any mainframe or
mini-computer using IBM compat¬
ible 1600 or 6250 BPI 9-track tape.

Unit can also be used for disk
backup. Transfer rate is up to 1
megabyte per minute via your SCSI
interface. Subsystem includes, tape
drive, software, and complete
documentation. For more
information call us today!

nURLSTfJRx

9621 Irondale Avenue
Chatsworth, CA 91311
Telephone: (818) 882-5822

Macintosh is a trademark of
Apple Computer, Inc

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WARNING

Modems, fax, answering machines,
solid-state phones on phone lines &
Macs & other computers on twisted¬
pair RJ 1 1 nets can be seriously
damaged by voltage spikes. suRge will
help protect your valuable equipment.
Don't be fooled by the low cost. suRge
is high quality & made in USA. $ 1 7
ppd VA +4.5%

Museum Quality Solutions, Inc.

P.0. Box 1305
Norfolk, VA 23501
Orders: (804) 474-4939

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Printers

Apple Daisywheel Printer

TRUE letter quality 1 on all Mac s &

Apple II's. Fast 40 char./sec. on 1-pg./
6-part forms, fixed or proport font, 198
columns, bold. NEW' $449,
REC0ND.$349 incl. easy mac point-
&-click printer resource, 1/F cable,
ribbon, & $10 print wheel w/dual font,
math, legal, foreign symbols. New
sheetfeeder $49- Commercial quality
w/ 90-day guarantee.

Quality Discount Computers Inc.

135 Artist View Dr.

Wellington, NV 89444
702/465-2473, 415/487-8148

Scanners

ScriptEdit

A powerful new desk accessory
script editor for HyperCard*

• Edit multiple scripts simultaneously

• Global Find-and-lteplace command

• Compare any two scripts Instantly

• Move to other stacks while editing

• Window listing of all stack objects

• Quick comment & uncomment

• XCMD for easy custom access

• HyperTalk pop-ups and inlb bar

• Includes 24-page manual, fold-out
reference card and installation stack

Available now! Retail price $79
See your dealer or call us today!

Somak Software, Inc.

535 Encinitas Blvd. Suite 113
Encinitas, CA 92024
800/842-5020 • 619/942-2556

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JX-100-8 Bit Hand Color Scanner . $ 995 . NOW $ CALL

JX-300-Business Color Scanner . $ 399% . NOW $ CALL

JX-450-Professional Color Scanner... $ 6£fc05 . NOW $ CALL

JX-600-Commercial Color Scanner . $14995 . NOW $ CALL

GPIB-Interface Package W/Cable . $ *5 70 . NOW $ 448

JX-730-Color Ink Jet Printer . $ ^195 . NOW $1485

JX-9500-SHARP Laser Printer . $/1695 . NOW $1085

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HyperCard Stacks

Japanese Language Instruction

Katiji Exercises No. 1

Using HyperCard

Anonae Software, PO Box 7629
Berkeley, CA 94707
(415)527-8006 Cost: S65

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OUR NEW KANJLM ASTER
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COMPLETE SPANISH
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Products in Russian, French, & German, too!

Call or write for our free catalog today*

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505 Forest Hills Blvd. Knoxville, TN 37919
(800)726-5087

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Add Spreadsheet
Capability to Stacks

Trendware XCAL™ allows you to inte¬
grate calculations into new or existing stacks.
Initiated from HyperCard's standard menu,
XCAL displays a spreadsheet-like grid over
cards in your stack. Clicking over HyperCard
items in the grid window lets you create for¬
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available with most stand-alone spreadsheet
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Performs calculations automatically on numerical data, text and dates when data is entered or
an item is clicked. Apply numeric, text and date formats to fields. Fields are reformatted auto¬
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Memory Expansion Kit Microtech

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International

Broderbund

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RAM Plus MacPeak Systems

Reader Rabbit The Learning Company

Math Blaster Davidson & Associates

Math Rabbit The Learning Company

PRODUCT WATCH

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Typing Tutor IV Simon & Schuster

Computer Software

Other recent or forthcoming

products of particular interest.

ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE

After Dark Berkeley Systems Screensaver

SimCity Maxis Software

Audiomedia Digidesign CD-qua!ity

MacGolf XOR/PCAI

audio board

Dark Castle Silicon Beach Software

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Tetris Spectrum HoloByte

interFACE Bright Star Technology

Flight Simulator Microsoft

Facial animation program

NETWORK/ DATA COMMUNICATIONS

TOPS TOPS

Source: Exclusive InfoCorp survey of more than
125 Macintosh retailers and selected mail-order
vendors. Covers sales during November 1989.

AppleShare Apple Computer

LocalTalk AppleComputer

♦Does not include hard disks installed at the

PhoneNet Farallon Computing

factory.

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Red Ryder FreeSoft

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MACWORLD • MARCH 1990

If Ybur Hard Drive
Is Too Limiting

Consider One That
Has No Limits.

With conventional hard disk drives there is a basic
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storage. Period. To get more you’ll have to buy another
hard drive.

Unless you consider the Ehman removable
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At just $749, our 45MB
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only $50 more than the priceofajasmine
40MB hard drive. But, the Ehman
removable gives you two, three, ten, or
twenty times more capacity just by
adding $99 cartridges. The sky is the
limit, but the price is down to earth.

The 45MB is based on award winning SyQuest
technology, with 20 millisecond access speed and a
30,000 hour reliability rating. You’re buying the best
technology available at the best price available.

As with all Ehman products you get a 30-day money
back guarantee, a lengthy warranty, and our optional
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The Ehman 45MB Removable Hard Disk Drive
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But All Buyer

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We can save you hundreds of dollars
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1989 Macworld
World Class Award

Turbo Mouse.

That’s right. For

the third year running, the readers
of Macworld magazine have voted
the Kensington TUrbo Mouse*

“Best Input Device” for Macintosh*computers.

Who were the contenders? Every other track¬
ball and mouse on the market. (Not to mention
joysticks, keyboards and graphics tablets.) The
winning secret? Simple.

Thrbo Mouse is
quicker, quieter, and easier to use.
It delivers the winning combination
of speed, precision, two buttons
with extra features, and a comfortable, space¬
saving design-all for just $169.95.

For a free brochure, or a dealer near you, call
(800) 535-4242. Outside theU.S. or in New York,
call (212) 475-5200.

Wins again and again
and again.

KENSINGTON a

Itatoo Mouse Kensington and the Kensington logo are registered trademarks of Kensington Microware Ltd C 1909 Kensington Microware Ltd

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